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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. make fat or plump;
- Example: "We will plump out that poor starving child"
[syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Fattening.] [See Fat, v. t.] 1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat. [1913 Webster] 2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. [1913 Webster] And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. --Otway. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fatten v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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