Word Finder - fattened

definition

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

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We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.

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(of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.

example

He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.

synonyms

• gain weight
• put on weight

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To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money).

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To become thick or thicker.

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To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.

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to fatten land

synonyms

• enrich

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To become fertile and fruitful.

Many thousands of cattle are fattened annually in this way at remarkably low cost.

People gorged and fattened up in preparation for famine.

Mangers showing fattened cattle and gazelles feeding were discovered there and the emplacements are still there now.

The female calves were kept to maintain the milking herd and the bull calves fattened and sold for meat.

They were then fattened on turnips, on which they were folded, and sold as quality mutton.

Salt fish, oysters, mussels or the specially fattened dormice cooked in a variety of ways.

Dorset Horn rams are terminal sires in flocks using natural ' frequent lambing ' to achieve year-round production of top quality fattened lambs.

The time-honoured notion that an animal must have completed its growth before it could be profitably fattened is no longer held, and the improved breeds which now exist rival one another as regards the early period at which they may be made ready for the butcher by appropriate feeding and management.

At night I would waddle back to my room, fattened up once more to face the coming week.

If you wish to limit your family's intake of hormone fattened meats, you should look for USDA certified organic meats.

Up to 1896 store cattle were admitted into the United Kingdom for the purpose of being fattened, but under the Diseases of Animals Act of that year animals imported since then have to be slaughtered at the place of landing.

The chief articles of commerce are fattened poultry, prunes (pruneaux d'Agen) and other fruit, cork, wine, vegetables and cattle.

The principal sheep-raising counties are Custer, Yellowstone, whither many sheep are brought to be fattened, Rosebud, Beaverhead, Valley, and Meagher.

Pigs, mostly of the Yorkshire, Berkshire and Tamworth breeds, are reared and fattened in large numbers, and there is a valuable export trade in bacon.

Experimental work has shown that swine fattened with a ration partly of skim-milk were lustier and of a more healthy appearance than swine fattened wholly on grains.

Many brood sows are fattened to greatest profit after the second or third litter.

Native oysters are small and of peculiar flavour; eastern varieties also are fattened, but not bred in California waters.

East Prussia is the headquarters of the horse-breeding of the country, and contains the principal government stud of Trakehnen; numerous cattle are also fattened on the rich pastures of the rivervalleys.

Angleworms are rarely to be met with in these parts, where the soil was never fattened with manure; the race is nearly extinct.

Even if they do not know for what purpose they are fattened, they will at least know that all that happened to the ram did not happen accidentally, and will no longer need the conceptions of chance or genius.