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FATTEN
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fatten ... he / she / it fattens
Past simple: fattened
-ing form: fattening
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
We will plump out that poor starving child
Synonyms:
fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "fatten" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
"Fatten" entails doing...:
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody