fatten

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. transitive
    — We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
  2. To become fat or fatter. intransitive
    — He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
  3. To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money). transitive
    — “You horrible old man, you’ve always tried to turn Erik into a slave, to fatten your pocketbook! […]”
  4. To become thick or thicker. intransitive
    — 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 a fattening sheaf.
  5. To make (soil) fertile and fruitful. transitive
    — to fatten land
  6. To become fertile and fruitful. intransitive
    — These hostile Fields shall fatten with thy Blood.

词形变化

fattens present,singular,third-person fattening participle,present fattened participle,past fattened past

词汇关系

衍生词
fattenable fattener fattening fatten the curve fatten up nonfattened overfatten refatten unfattenable unfattened

词源

Etymology tree
English fat
English -en
English fatten
From fat + -en.
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