Fatten1. (v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
2. (v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
3. (v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
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