Definitions for fattens

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fattens fat·ten

Spelling: [fat-n]

IPA: /ˈfæt n/

Fattens is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in fattens (aefnstt).

Definitions for fattens

verb (used with object)

1. to make fat.
2. to feed (animals) abundantly before slaughter.
3. to enrich:
4. Cards. Poker. to increase the number of chips in (a pot). Pinochle. to play a card that scores high on (a trick) expected to be taken by a partner.

verb (used without object)

1. to grow fat.

Origin of fattens

First recorded in 1545-55; fat + -en¹

Examples for fattens

We should judge innovators not on whether they fatten our wallets, but whether their products enrich our lives.

If I cannot share the bed of roses, I can at least fatten on the smell.

He began to joke, and told his brother that he would undertake to fatten him.

So where are the angry headlines and government initiatives to fatten up our jockeys?

The Drug Enforcement Administration partners with local police forces to fatten budgets with seizures from dealers.

Are men who have these institutions only to eat and fatten like beasts?

But the principal use to which we put them is to fatten our pigs.

fatten them up well, and the foreigners will give me good prices.'

As for me, I am over-young to break my neck and be left on the mountain-side to fatten crows.

Quite convinced that I haven't hidden her away to fatten for my breakfast?