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To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

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  1. v. t. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
  2. v. t. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
  3. v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
  4. v. make fat or plump
  5. 1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat. 2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
  6. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; tobe pampered.And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
  7. v:100 v. make fat or plump