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FATTEN UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fatten up mean? 

FATTEN UP (verb)
  The verb FATTEN UP has 1 sense:

1. make fat or plumpplay

  Familiarity information: FATTEN UP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FATTEN UP (verb)


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 up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

"Fatten up" entails doing...:

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


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