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Fatten meaning
To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. | To become fat or fatter. | To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).
Example sentences (18)
Before you tax them, at least fatten them.
Officials said bears in hyperphagia will spend up to 20 hours a day searching out and eating as much food as possible to fatten up for winter.
Better to shatter one’s teeth attempting to bite off Gerlachovský štít (peak) than to fatten yourself on the light of Santorini sun pouring down your face like heavenly cascades of olive oil.
The applicant also proposes to buy a minimum of 50 head of cattle at the age of 14-16 weeks old and would fatten these until 24 months.
Protecting our elderly does not fatten portfolios.
These coho made it to sea as juveniles, survived to fatten and grow in the vast ocean, escaped fisheries in Alaska and Puget Sound to return — via a circuitous route through the locks — to get this far.
Fatten student aid programs to make post-secondary education more accessible, and do more for seniors over 75. They would put serious money into fighting guns and gangs.
It also generated $US614 million in cash, helping fatten its bank account to $US5 billion through June.
Others have their beaks and claws mutilated before being force-fed in tiny cages to fatten their livers to make the expensive delicacy.
The Church’s environment commission also reacted to the project’s approval, saying that these decisions seemed to be guided by those eager to “fatten their own pockets”.
At the very least, the conservative politician and pharmacist can continue to fatten his wallet with Medicaid money.
It sharpens your focus at a time when you may still have 10 or 15 years of work left, so there’s time to fatten your savings and watch the money grow.
Spencer’s team also found that some families would catch armadillos live and keep them in their homes to fatten them up before eating, which would also increase the likelihood of transmission between them.
These are the same units that will fatten Redgate’s pockets for generations to come.
Why not fatten your take even more by charging for all the child services you’ll be giving all these little ones?
Yet another wandering bear was rounded up in Gatineau Thursday, as the city continues to experience a record level of incursions by animals looking for food to fatten up for hibernation.
Others will be purchased by re-stockers to grow out and fatten on grass or as potential breeders.
Poultry such as ducks, geese, and pigeons were captured in nets and bred on farms, where they were force-fed with dough to fatten them.