fatten

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make fat or plump

   Farmers fatten cattle before the winter market.

2. 2
   verb

   To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

   We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.

3. 3
   verb

   To become fat or fatter.

   He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.

4. 4
   verb

   To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).

   “You horrible old man, you’ve always tried to turn Erik into a slave, to fatten your pocketbook! […]”

Multiword verbs with fatten

• fatten up Phrasal verb B1

  to make an animal or person gain weight

Appears in

From fat + -en.

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