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FATTEN

\fˈatən], \fˈatən], \f_ˈa_t_ə_n]\

Definitions of FATTEN

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language

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make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

To make fat, plump, or stout; feed for the table.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

To make fat or fleshy; to make fertile.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

To make or grow fat.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

To make or become fat, plump, or productive; grow rich.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fertile and fruitful; to feed grossly.
To grow fat; to grow plump or fleshy; to be pampered.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

To make fat; to make stout or plump; to enrich; to grow plump or fleshy.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

To feed up, to make fleshy; to make fruitful; to feed grossly, to increase.
To grow fat, to be pampered.

1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Sheridan

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