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Fatten   /fˈætən/   Listen
verb
Fatten  v. t.  (past & past part. fattened; pres. part. fattening)  
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.


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





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"Fatten" Quotes from Famous Books



... their luncheon, and Maurice expressed his opinion of it: "This cake is the limit!" He threw a piece of it at the little dog. "There, Bingo!... Eleanor, he's losing his waist line. But this cake won't fatten him! It's sawdust." ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... tribute to the king; that no man who owns not above twenty pounds a year shall consume wheaten bread, or eat the flesh of fowl or swine without tribute; and that all ploughed land shall pay tribute likewise. Thus the Church is to be beggared, the poor plundered, and all men burthened, to fatten the king, and fill ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... these degrading "concessions?" The whole business, he argued, smacked of simony. If the Brethren made terms with kings at all, they should take their stand, not, forsooth, as good workmen who would help to fatten the soil, but rather as loyal adherents of the Augsburg Confession. At Herrnhaag they had turned the Church into a business concern! Instead of paying rent to the Counts of Isenburg, they now had the Counts in their power. They had lent them large sums of money; they held their estates as ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
... with men in a common wealth. Much will haue more: and once poore, seldome or neuer rich. The raine will scind, and wash, and the wind will blow fatnesse from the heights to the hollowes, where it will abide, and fatten the earth though ...
— A New Orchard And Garden • William Lawson
... stream By Luna lost in Ocean. On the Alps Whose spurs strike plainwards, and on fields of Gaul The cloudy heights of Apennine look down In further distance: on his nearer slopes The Sabine turns the ploughshare; Umbrian kine And Marsian fatten; with his pineclad rocks He girds the tribes of Latium, nor leaves Hesperia's soil until the waves that beat On Scylla's cave compel. His southern spurs Extend to Juno's temple, and of old Stretched further than Italia, till the ...
— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan


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