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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



... thought," he reported to the secretly amused Welton, "that even in feeding the finer sorts of garbage to hogs there might be an economic waste; hogs fatten well enough on the coarser grades, and chickens will eat the finer. In that I fell into error. The percentage of loss from noxious varmints more than equals the difference in the cost of eggs. I further find that the margin of ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... served themselves better than their country. The entanglements of a new rule amount to practical confiscation of the lands of the old chieftains. What they saved from the conqueror is destined later to fatten ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... cellar, and which is enough to make one forget the greatest grief; for I find in the Holy Writ these words, 'Good wine rejoices the heart of man.' It is in Latin. I will show it you. Come, then, dear M. Chicot; come, with the king, M. d'Epernon, and M. de St. Luc, and we will fatten them all. ...
— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas
... Sure, my lad, I am no friend to the Company, a set of stiff-necked, ignorant, grasping, paunchy peddlers who fatten at home on the toil of better men. No, I am an adventurer, I own it; I am an interloper; and we interlopers, despite the Company's monopoly, yet contrive to keep body ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it. Even the rumor of Reform had not yet excited any millennial expectations in Frick, there being no definite promise in it, as of gratuitous grains to fatten Hiram Ford's pig, or of a publican at the "Weights and Scales" who would brew beer for nothing, or of an offer on the part of the three neighboring farmers to raise wages during winter. And without distinct good of this kind ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot


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