What does "fatten" mean?
Fatten: To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.
Additional senses
- 2.To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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