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1 fatten
verb ((often with up) to make or become fat: They are fattening up a turkey to eat at Christmas.) vykrmovat; ztloustnout* * *• vykrmit• vykrmovat• ztloustnout
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fatten — ► VERB ▪ make or become fat or fatter … English terms dictionary
fatten up — verb make fat or plump We will plump out that poor starving child • Syn: ↑fatten, ↑fat, ↑flesh out, ↑fill out, ↑plump, ↑plump out, ↑fatten out … Useful english dictionary
fatten out — verb make fat or plump We will plump out that poor starving child • Syn: ↑fatten, ↑fat, ↑flesh out, ↑fill out, ↑plump, ↑plump out, ↑fatten up … Useful english dictionary
fatten — verb a) To become fatter If we give it a bit more sugar, well see him slowly fatten. b) To cause to be fatter We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving … Wiktionary
fatten — 1550s, from FAT (Cf. fat) + EN (Cf. en) (1). Related: Fattened. The earlier verb was simply fat (O.E. fættian to become fat, fatten ); e.g. fatted calf … Etymology dictionary
fatten — verb (I, T) to make an animal become fatter so that it is ready to eat, or to become fat and ready to eat fatten sb/sth up phrasal verb (T) often humorous to make a person or animal fatter: He s too thin you ought to try fattening him up a bit … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
fatten — verb Fatten is used with these nouns as the object: ↑pig … Collocations dictionary
fatten — verb 1) fattening livestock Syn: make fat/fatter, feed (up), build up 2) we re sending her home to fatten up Syn: put on weight, gain weight, get heavier, grow fatter, fill out Ant … Thesaurus of popular words
fatten — verb (fattened; fattening) Date: circa 1552 transitive verb 1. a. to make fat, fleshy, or plump; especially to feed (as a stock animal) for slaughter b. to make more substantial 2. to make fertile intransitive verb to become fat • fattener … New Collegiate Dictionary
fatten — verb make or become fat or fatter … English new terms dictionary
fatten — [[t]fæ̱t(ə)n[/t]] fattens, fattening, fattened 1) V ERG If an animal is fattened, or if it fattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more. [be V ed] The cattle are being fattened for slaughter... The creature continued to grow and fatten.… … English dictionary