Fatten

v. t.	1.	To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat. [imp. & p. p. Fattened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fattening .]
	2.	To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
v. i.	1.	To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. - Otway.

Verb

1.

fatten - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, flesh out, plump out, plump, fill out

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