fatten Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make fat or plump
    fatten up; fat; fill out; flesh out; fatten out; plump out; plump.
    • We will plump out that poor starving child

WordNet

Fat"ten transitive verb
Etymology
See Fat, v. t.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fattened ; present participle & verbal noun Fattining
Definitions
  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.
Fat"ten intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
    And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.

Webster 1913