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Definition: Fatten |
FattenVerb1. Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fatten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: FattenSynonyms: fat (v), fatten out (v), fatten up (v), fill out (v), flesh out (v), plump (v), plump out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expansion | Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten. |
Food | Live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet. |
Improvement | Improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten. |
Prosperity | Flower, blow, blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten. |
Servility | Pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fatten |
| English words defined with "fatten": Enlard ♦ fatten out, fatten up, Fattining ♦ Impinguate ♦ Lare ♦ Oyster bed ♦ Potale ♦ stall-fed, Stall-feed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fatten": Browse his Jib ♦ COROZO OLEIFERA ♦ Fustian Words ♦ PSIDIUM GUJAVA. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fatten": Impinguate ♦ Pinguefaction. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Thomas Otway | Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. |
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| "Fatten" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.33% of the time. "Fatten" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80.33% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.67% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fatten": fatten on ♦ fatten out ♦ fatten up. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fatten up | 139 |
fatten up woman | 8 |
fatten girl up | 8 |
bbw fatten up | 8 |
fatten | 6 |
animal fatten | 4 |
fatten feederism up where | 3 |
belly fatten | 3 |
comic fatten | 3 |
belly fatten up | 3 |
fatten willix | 3 |
fatten tummy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fatten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ushqej për majmëri, pasuroj tokën, majm (feed up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سمن (batten, flesh, gain weight, plumb out, plump, portliness, stuff, surfeit, thicken), أخصب (enrich, fertilize, fructify, impregnate, inseminate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | угоявам (cram, fat, feed up), охранвам (feed up, feed well), затлъстявам, забогатявам (better off, enrich, feather one's nest, grow rich, rise to affluence, thrive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 肥胖 (FAT, Fattened, fattening, Obese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ztloustnout (gain weight, get fat, grow fat, plump, run to fat, thicken), vykrmit (feed up, plump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lihottaa (make fat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | engraisser (fatten up, grow fat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mästen (cram, feed up, plump up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παχαίνω (batten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללש" (add vigour), לפטם (cram, plump, stuff, surfeit), לאבוס (feed, stuff), ל"לעיט (cram, force feed, gorge, overfeed, stuff, surfeit), ל"שמין (grow fat, plump, put on weight), ל"אביס (stuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hizlal (beef, stuff, to fat, to fatten, to fatten up, to feed up, to flesh), hízik (gain weight, grow fat, grow stout, to batten, to fat, to fatten, to flesh, to gain weight, to gather flesh, to grow big, to make flesh, to pick up weight, to put on beef, to put on flesh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menggendutkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rimpinguare (enrich, grow fat, grow rich), ingrassare (batten, goos, grease, lubricate, make fat, put on weight, smear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 馬'肥やす (to fatten a horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うま'"やす (to fatten a horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 살찌십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | roauyraghey (fattening, fill out, thicken, thicken as wool, thickening), meaghey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | attenfay esgotar (consume, deplete, do in, dry cell battery, empty bottle, exhaust, expend, fork, impoverished, outwear, overdrive, overstrain, pump up, rack, run out of, sap, spend, tire, use up, wear out, weary, work out), engordar (batten, furnish, lard, plumper, weigh on). (various references) se îngrãşa (batten, flesh, get fat, grow fat, plump, put on flesh, put on weight, wax fat), îngrãşa (batten, cram, fertilize, manure, plump), îndopa (cram, gorge, guzzle, overfeed, pamper, stuff, surfeit). (various references) откармливать (feed up). (various references) ugojiti, nakljukati (cram, pamper, stuff), nagojiti. (various references) engordar (fill out, gain, get fat, grow fat, increase, plump, put on, swell). (various references) göda (fat, feed up, fertilize). (various references) อ้วน (fat, fleshy, pyknic), ทำให้อ้วน. (various references) yaşlanmak (age, be getting on in years, get old, grow old), yağlanmak, yağlandırmak, yağ bağlamak, tombullaşmak (grow plump, plump, plump out, wax fat), semirtmek (cram, fat, fat up, feed up, make fat, plump, plump out, tallow), semirmek (batten, grow fat), gübrelemek (compost, dung, fertilize, manure, muck), besiye çekmek (fat, feed up, tallow), şişmanlatmak (fat, fat up, plump, plump out), şişmanlamak (batten, gain in weight, gain weight, grow fat, put on flesh, put on weight, round out, wax fat). (various references) semremek (gain weight), parkyldamak (plumpen). (various references) відгодовувати (condition, cram, feed up, plump, tallow), жиріти (batten). (various references) tewychu (condense, thicken), tewhau (thicken), pwyntio (point), pesgi (feed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incrassata, incrassati, incrassatum, incrassatus, inpinguabitur, inpinguasti, inpinguat, inpinguati, inpinguatus, inpinguet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fatten": fattened, fattener, fatteners, fattening, fattens. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fatten": nonfattening. (additional references) | |
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"Fatten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aften, atten, attent, Fachtna, fadden, falten, fantan, Fantin, fatan, faten, fatex, fatey, fatin, Fatshan, fatte, Fatteh, fatto, Fattoun, feraten, fiten, Folten, fsten, ften, Gattegno, hatten, ratteen, satten, tatten. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fatten" (pronounced fa"tun) |
| 4 | -a" t u n | batten, craton, flatten, Manhattan, Patten, platen, satin. |
| 3 | -t u n | actin, badminton, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-n-t-t" | |
-2 letters: ante, etna, fane, fate, feat, feta, neat, nett, tate, teat, tent. | |
-3 letters: aft, ane, ant, ate, att, eat, eft, eta, fan, fat, fen, fet, nae, net, tae, tan, tat, tea, ten, tet. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, at, ef, en, et, fa, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: fattens, flatten. | |
+2 letters: antileft, faintest, fattened, fattener, fetation, flattens. | |
+3 letters: antitheft, defatting, facetting, fatteners, fattening, fattiness, festinate, fetations, flattened, flattener, flatulent, fortunate, infatuate, infestant, transfect, ventifact. | |
+4 letters: fenestrate, festinated, festinates, fianchetti, fianchetto, flatteners, flattening, flattering, flauntiest, fraternity, infatuated, infatuates, infestants, infiltrate, interfaith, intergraft, refutation, transfects, ventifacts, waterfront. | |
+5 letters: affectation, antifatigue, battlefront, confutative, engraftment, fattinesses, fenestrated, festinately, festinating, fianchettos, flannelette, flatulently, fomentation, forestation, foretasting, fortunately, fractionate, fragmentate, infestation, infiltrated, infiltrates, intergrafts, leafletting, manifestant, metafiction, outfeasting, pontificate, refutations, sinfonietta, tactfulness, transfected, transfinite, tumefaction, unfortunate, waterfronts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 74 74 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- - - . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a t t e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0074 0074 0065 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406786867180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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