OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 34668

fatten

/ˈfætən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
engordar
To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
And if the mat[t]er be too little, the vertue of digestion fayleth, and the bodye is dryed, and if the matter and meate be moderate, the meats is well digested, and the bodye fatte…
We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
cebarse • engordar
To become fat or fatter.
He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
The Laplanders, possessing a country where corn will not grow, make bread of the inner bark of trees; and Linneus reports, that swine there fatten on that food […]