fatten (third-person singular simple presentfattens,present participlefattening,simple past and past participlefattened)
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to befat or fatter.
We mustfatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
1582,Stephen Batman, transl.,Batman vpponBartholome his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum[1], London: Thomas East,Book 6, Chapter 25, p. 82:
And if the mat[t]er be too little, the vertue of digestion fayleth, and the bodye is dryed, and if the matter and meate be moderate, the meats is well digested, and the bodyefattened, the heart comforted, kinde heate made more, the humors made temperate, & wit made cleere:
He graduallyfattened in the five years after getting married.
1774,Henry Home, Lord Kames, “Sketches of the History of Man”, inSketch[3], volume 1, Dublin: James Williams,2, pp. 49-50:
The Laplanders, possessing a country where corn will not grow, make bread of the inner bark of trees; andLinneus reports, that swine therefatten on that food[…]
[…] stirred by the air / That freshened from the window, these ascended / Infattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia, / Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
The news spread, about the bastard caterer who was toying with their religious sentiments, trampling on their beliefs, polluting their beings, all for the sake offattening his miserable wallet.
It was the impotence of the money, and of all the pent-up warlike fancies that had earned it, to do anything but elaborate the wardrobe andfatten the financial portfolios of the owners of Empire Comics that so frustrated and enraged him.
A broad river of white paper rushed constantly up from the cylinder and leaped into a mangling chaos of machinery whence it emerged a second later, cut, printed, folded and stacked, sliding along a board with a hundred others in afattening sheaf.
1991, Stephen King,Needful Things:
The pencil-line of light by his feetfattened to a bar. Alan looked around and saw Norris Ridgewick.
