Fat (Verb)
Meaning
Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child".
Classification
Verbs of eating and drinking.
Examples
- The rancher works hard to fatten his cattle for market.
- Her mother took her to see a doctor after she noticed her rapidly losing weight and looked forward to fattening her up again.
- The purpose of the holiday was to relax and fatten up on mom's delicious cooking.
- In the summer, they fatten chickens for a festival on the hill.
- Their grandmother spoiled them on visits filling full warm meals that were meant to fatten them.