Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fatten"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fattened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Fattining}.] [See {Fat}, v. t.]
1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or
plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten
land; to fatten fields with blood. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. i.
To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to
be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.
--Otway.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fatten
v : make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: {fat}, {flesh out}, {fill out}, {plump}, {plump
out}, {fatten out}, {fatten up}]
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