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# fatten

«fatten» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make an animal or person fatter, especially farm…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (fatten, fattens, fattened, fattening); adjective fattening

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make an animal or person fatter, especially farm animals before they are sold for meat, as in «fatten the pigs». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#m1)

2) To become fatter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#m2)

3) (informal) To make something bigger, as in «fatten your wallet». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In farming lessons, farmers fatten cattle, pigs or turkeys. In stories, like «Hansel and Gretel», the witch tries to fatten Hansel up to eat him. In everyday life, adults call rich foods «fattening». Phrase: «fatten up».

### examples

- The witch tried to fatten Hansel up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#x1)
- Farmers fatten turkeys before Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#x2)
- Bears fatten up in autumn before they sleep for the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#x3)
- Cream cakes are fattening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#x4)
- The geese were fattening on grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#x5)
- Saving pocket money will fatten your piggy bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#x6)
- Better fatten me up; you will enjoy me much more.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/#x7)

### note

Double t: fatten, fattened, fattening. Be kind: talking about people's weight can hurt feelings. «Fattening» describes foods with lots of energy (calories).

### In the corpora

- [The hazel dormouse can hibernate for six months or more, after fattening up on hazelnuts and berries in autumn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/7/)
- [In autumn brown bears gather at rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream, fattening up for winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fatten» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatten/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.