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FATTEN UP

Pronunciation (US):

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

1. make fat or plump

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

• FATTEN UP (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make fat or plump

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; flesh out; plump out; plump; fill 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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