FATTEN

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

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Etymology

Verb

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

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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

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