verb Download 🔗Share To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. Examples : "We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving." body food physiology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter. Examples : "He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married." body physiology food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money). Examples : "I spent all afternoon fattening my report with extra charts and detailed explanations to make it look more substantial. " food economy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To become thick or thicker. Examples : "The old armchair was getting fattening with every extra blanket I draped over it. " body physiology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make (soil) fertile and fruitful. Examples : "to fatten land" agriculture plant Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To become fertile and fruitful. Examples : "The farmer carefully tended his fields, hoping the rich soil would be fattening the crops and promising a bountiful harvest. " agriculture plant Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act of making something fatter, particularly in reference or allusion to livestock. Examples : "The farmer's careful fattening of the piglets prepared them for the upcoming market. " food animal agriculture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act of becoming fatter. Examples : "The farmer worried about the fattening of his pigs before the market. " body food physiology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share That causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value. Examples : "The extra large pepperoni pizza was very fattening. " food body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading