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Fatten
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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. Dryden.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.