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FATTEN OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fatten out mean?
• FATTEN OUT (verb)
The verb FATTEN OUT has 1 sense:
1. make fat or plump
Familiarity information: FATTEN OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make fat or plump
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out
Context example:
We will plump out that poor starving child
Hypernyms (to "fatten out" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
"Fatten out" entails doing...:
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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