Definitions for fatten

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fatten fat·ten

Spelling: [fat-n]

IPA: /ˈfæt n/

Fatten is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in fatten (aefntt).

Definitions for fatten

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 fatten

First recorded in 1545-55; fat + -en¹

Examples for fatten

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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