fatten

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

   We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.

2. verb To become fat or fatter.

   He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.

3. verb To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).
4. verb To become thick or thicker.
5. verb To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.

   to fatten land

6. verb To become fertile and fruitful.

Similar words

fatten up fat plump flesh out fill out fatten out plump out run to fat batten stouten

Often followed by

on the them up and upon their a him

Word family

fattened fattener fatteners fattening fattens