fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
(verb) make fat or plump; “We will plump out that poor starving child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fatten (third-person singular simple present fattens, present participle fattening, simple past and past participle fattened)
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
(intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.
Synonyms: gain weight, put on weight
(transitive) To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money).
(intransitive) To become thick or thicker.
(transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.
Synonym: enrich
(intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful.
Source: Wiktionary
Fat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Fattining.] Etym: [See Fat, v. 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, v. i.
Definition: To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
