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Meanings of fatten in English

Portuguese
cevar
Catalan
saginar
Spanish
cebar

Make fat or plump.

      cevar
      Usage of fatten in English
      1
      Do not fatten on the labor of the poor, but share it.
      Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
      2
      The statues are powerless and the offerings serve to fatten the priests.
      The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
      3
      The thought came to him: when the host weakens, the parasites fatten.
      Dancer’s Lament
      4
      Unfortunately, the natural pasturage is not sufficiently good to fatten beasts indiscriminately.
      Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
      5
      In this way we breed sheep, fatten oxen: men are dying off.
      Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2
      6
      Come on, I'll give you something to fatten you up a bit.
      Another life altogether: a novel
      7
      You are a father-theblood of your sons shall fatten your corn-fields.
      Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers
      8
      You are a father-theblood of your sons shall fatten your corn-field.
      The American Union Speaker
      9
      On their maimed and dead persons the news tapes fatten and flourish.
      Dogs of war
      10
      They are lions' parasites; themselves, of cold blood they fatten upon hot.
      The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays / 1909
      11
      I will fatten up your infamy, and add fuel to your doom.
      The Robbers
      12
      They see themselves being starved that Germany may fatten on their granaries.
      World's War Events Volume 3 / Beginning with the departure of t...
      13
      She may cook him better dinners, and fatten him up a trifle.
      Dear Enemy
      14
      Lawyers fatten by delays of justice, as physicians do by tardy cure.
      Hard Cash
      15
      Others would prepare her, as one might fatten a lamb for slaughter.
      Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
      16
      That was soon after he come out here to fatten up like.
      The Phantom Herd
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      Translations for fatten
      Portuguese
      cevarengordar
      Spanish
      cebar
      Fatten through the time
      Fatten across language varieties
      United Kingdom
      Common
      United States of America
      Common