Fatten: Definition and part of speech

Fatten

  1. v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
  2. v. t. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
  3. v. t. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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