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fatten

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

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.

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We will plump out that poor starving child Source: Internet

Compounding fiscal problems this budget season are a "loss" of $3.7 million in anticipated revenue, the recent revaluation which about doubled home values, and the dire need to fatten up the bulimic pension fund. Source: Internet

Plump hummingbirds are filled with sweet and good sources of fat, particularly during the late summer and early fall when hummingbirds fatten themselves up for migration. Source: Internet

As summer winds down, bears normally eat anything they can to fatten up for winter hibernation. Source: Internet

In the fall, the chestnut tree’s rich nuts were used to fatten hogs. Source: Internet

You will be amazed at how fast these slow-setting buds fatten up, producing thick, dense colas as they ripen. Source: Internet

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