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noun
- 1. a repeated decorative design: "a neat blue herringbone pattern" Similar
- 2. a model or design used as a guide in needlework and other crafts: "make a pattern for the zigzag edge" Similar
verb
- 1. decorate with a repeated design: "he was sitting on a soft carpet patterned in rich colours"
- 2. give a regular or intelligible form to: "the brain not only receives information, but interprets and patterns it"
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The meaning of FATTEN is to make fat, fleshy, or plump; especially : to feed (an animal) for slaughter. How to use fatten in a sentence.
Definition of 'fatten' fatten. (fætən ) Word forms: fattens , fattening , fattened. 1. verb. If an animal is fattened, or if it fattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter. [be VERB -ed] The creature continued to grow and fatten. [VERB] [Also VERB noun]
fatten (somebody/something) (up) to make somebody/something fatter, especially an animal before killing it for food; to become fatter. The piglets are taken from the sow to be fattened for market. She's very thin after her illness—but we'll soon fatten her up.
verb. to grow or cause to grow fat or fatter. tr to cause (an animal or fowl) to become fat by feeding it. tr to make fuller or richer. tr to enrich (soil) by adding fertilizing agents.
To fatten someone is to feed them until they become bigger and fatter. Your grandmother might see a tiny baby and say, "His mother needs to fatten him up!"
1. to grow or cause to grow fat or fatter. 2. (Agriculture) (tr) to cause (an animal or fowl) to become fat by feeding it. 3. (tr) to make fuller or richer. 4. (Agriculture) (tr) to enrich (soil) by adding fertilizing agents. ˈfattenable adj. ˈfattener n. ˈfattening adj.
1. If an animal is fattened, or if it fattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more. [...] 2. If you say that someone is fattening something such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of. [business, disapproval] [...] 2.
FATTEN definition: to make animals fatter so that they can be eaten. Learn more.
FATTEN meaning: 1 : to make (someone or something) fat; 2 : to become fat usually + up.
The smaller size of the flocks and the breeding of sheep for meat rather than for wool, the cultivation of English grasses and of extensive crops of turnips and other roots on which to fatten sheep and lambs, all tend to change sheep-farming from the mere grazing of huge mobs on wide, unimproved runs held by pastoral licences.
