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Webster 1913 Edition


Fatten

Fat′ten

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fattened
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Fattening
.]
[See
Fat
,
Verb.
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.

Fat′ten

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fatten

FAT'TEN

,
Verb.
T.
fat'n.
1.
To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy, or plump with fat.
2.
To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
3.
To feed grossly; to fill.

FAT'TEN

,
Verb.
I.
fat'n. to grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.
Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed.
The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead.

Definition 2024


fatten

fatten

English

Verb

fatten (third-person singular simple present fattens, present participle fattening, simple past and past participle fattened)

  1. (intransitive) To become fatter.
    He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
  2. (transitive) To cause to be fatter.
    We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
  3. (transitive) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
    to fatten land
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

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