FATTEN

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

2.
v.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

3.
v.

To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.


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