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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
Thomas Edward Brown

Meaning of "fatten" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FATTEN

fatten  [ˈfætən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FATTEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fatten is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb fatten in English.

WHAT DOES FATTEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fatten in the English dictionary

The first definition of fatten in the dictionary is to grow or cause to grow fat or fatter. Other definition of fatten is to cause to become fat by feeding it. Fatten is also to make fuller or richer.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FATTEN

PRESENT

Present
I fatten
you fatten
he/she/it fattens
we fatten
you fatten
they fatten
Present continuous
I am fattening
you are fattening
he/she/it is fattening
we are fattening
you are fattening
they are fattening
Present perfect
I have fattened
you have fattened
he/she/it has fattened
we have fattened
you have fattened
they have fattened
Present perfect continuous
I have been fattening
you have been fattening
he/she/it has been fattening
we have been fattening
you have been fattening
they have been fattening
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I fattened
you fattened
he/she/it fattened
we fattened
you fattened
they fattened
Past continuous
I was fattening
you were fattening
he/she/it was fattening
we were fattening
you were fattening
they were fattening
Past perfect
I had fattened
you had fattened
he/she/it had fattened
we had fattened
you had fattened
they had fattened
Past perfect continuous
I had been fattening
you had been fattening
he/she/it had been fattening
we had been fattening
you had been fattening
they had been fattening
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will fatten
you will fatten
he/she/it will fatten
we will fatten
you will fatten
they will fatten
Future continuous
I will be fattening
you will be fattening
he/she/it will be fattening
we will be fattening
you will be fattening
they will be fattening
Future perfect
I will have fattened
you will have fattened
he/she/it will have fattened
we will have fattened
you will have fattened
they will have fattened
Future perfect continuous
I will have been fattening
you will have been fattening
he/she/it will have been fattening
we will have been fattening
you will have been fattening
they will have been fattening
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would fatten
you would fatten
he/she/it would fatten
we would fatten
you would fatten
they would fatten
Conditional continuous
I would be fattening
you would be fattening
he/she/it would be fattening
we would be fattening
you would be fattening
they would be fattening
Conditional perfect
I would have fatten
you would have fatten
he/she/it would have fatten
we would have fatten
you would have fatten
they would have fatten
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been fattening
you would have been fattening
he/she/it would have been fattening
we would have been fattening
you would have been fattening
they would have been fattening
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you fatten
we let´s fatten
you fatten
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to fatten
Past participle
fattened
Present Participle
fattening
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FATTEN


baton
ˈbætən
batten
ˈbætən
Brattain
ˈbrætən
flatten
ˈflætən
Grattan
ˈɡrætən
harmattan
hɑːˈmætən
latten
ˈlætən
Manhattan
mænˈhætən
Mountbatten
maʊntˈbætən
paten
ˈpætən
patten
ˈpætən
pattern
ˈpætən
Patton
ˈpætən
platan
ˈplætən
platen
ˈplætən
ratten
ˈrætən
ratton
ˈrætən
slattern
ˈslætən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FATTEN

fatted
fattenable
fattener
fattening
fatter
fattest
fattier
fatties
fattiest
fattily
fattiness
fatting
fattish
fattism
fattist
fattrels
fatty
fatty acid
fatty degeneration
fatty oil

WORDS THAT END LIKE FATTEN

begotten
bitten
Britten
forgotten
gotten
handwritten
have gotten
kitten
long-forgotten
mitten
never-to-be-forgotten
overwritten
rewritten
rotten
sitten
smitten
underwritten
unwritten
well-written
written

Synonyms and antonyms of fatten in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FATTEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fatten» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of fatten

Translation of «fatten» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FATTEN

Find out the translation of fatten to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fatten from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fatten» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

催肥
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

engordar
570 millions of speakers

English

fatten
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोटा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تسمين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

откормить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

engordar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মোটা করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

engraisser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggemukkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mästen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

太らせる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

살찌
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fatten
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nuôi cho mập
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொழுக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुष्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şişmanlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingrassare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dokarmiać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відгодувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

îngrășa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παχύνουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

göda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fatten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fatten

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FATTEN»

The term «fatten» is regularly used and occupies the 71.715 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FATTEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fatten» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fatten» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fatten

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6 QUOTES WITH «FATTEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fatten.
1
Katy B
I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.
2
Thomas Edward Brown
It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
3
John Howard
You can't fatten the pig on market day.
4
Thomas Otway
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
5
James D. Watson
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.
6
Randy Wayne White
My aunts still try to fatten me up.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FATTEN»

Discover the use of fatten in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fatten and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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4 Easy Ways To Ignite Your Love Life And Fatten Up Your Wallet
My easiest \"no-brainer\" method that will show you exactly how to make your realtionships more exciting and put more money in your wallet in 30 days using the art of feng shui.
Chris Barr, 2008
2
Tax Strategies for the Small Business Owner: Reduce Your ...
Reduce Your Taxes and Fatten Your Profits Russell Fox. LEARN TO RELAX WHEN DEALING WITH TAXES— AND MAKE MORE MONEY TAX STRATEGIES FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER REDUCE YOUR TAXES AND FATTEN ...
Russell Fox, 2013
3
THE THIRD REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS
i i Supporters and Eikinj, to pirn, get np, and fatten, each — Straight without Sakins, to trim, get 7 2 15 - J 2 13 - 2 II -, 2 6 - 2 S t 22- "l Knee to the aft fide of the Cathead, to trim, get 7 up, and fatten - - - - - j ,•• up, and Li' or - - ... - j I 10 - i 9 - i 8 - m ...
4
The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany
It'm for eight and twentye buttons of golde employed as well to the said dublette of yalowe fatten, as also to the forsaide dublette of yalowe damafke, all oure greate warderobe. It'm for one yardeand a halfe of yalowe fatten employed to the  ...
5
The Plays of William Shakspeare: Malone's Historical account ...
Item, j ash coller fatten doublett, lacyd with gold lace. Item, j peche coller fatten doublett. Item, j owld whitte fatten doublette. Item, j bleu tafitie sewtte. Item, j Mores cotte. Item, Pyges [Psyches] damask go wne. Item, j black fatten cotte. Item  ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, 1799
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pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations ...
Item, j ash coller fatten doublets, lacydwith gold lace. Item, j peche coller fatten doublett. Item, j ovvld whitte fatten dublette. hem, j bleu tafitie sewtte. Item, j Mores cotte. Item, i'ygcs [Psyches] damask gowne. Item, j black fatten cotte. hem, ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, 1790
7
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: History of the ...
The En<ventorey of all the aparell of the Lord Admeralles men, taken the iyh of March IC98, ai tfolloiveth : Item, j payer of whitte saten Venesons cut with coper lace; Item, j ash coller fatten doublets, lacyd with gold lace. Item, j peche coller ...
William Shakespeare, 1790
8
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: pt. 2. Historical ...
Item, j a(h coller fatten doublets, Iacydwith gold lace. Item, j peche coller fatten doublett. Item, j owld whitte fatten dublette. Item, j bleu tasitie sewtte. Item, j Mores cotte. Item, Pyges [Psyches] damafle gowne. Item, j black fatten cotte. I: em, j ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, 1790
9
The evolution of the English drama up to Shakespeare: with a ...
... of oure progenioto13 all fuche neffifary ftuff and other thinges as hereafter folowithe, Item Genus humanum for a gowne, pttrple pttrple breges fatten vij yardes Item v virgins Caffockes of white breg&s fatten and vij yardes for every of them, ...
Charles William Wallace, 1912
10
Schriften:
... coronacion as in tymes paft hathe ben accuftomed to be don by the gentlemen of the chapel], of oure progenioto" all fuche neffifary ftuff and other thinges as hereafter folowithe, Item Genus humanum for a gowne, purple purple breges fatten.
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, 1912

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FATTEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fatten is used in the context of the following news items.
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Food sanctuaries: TV characters' favorite places to calm down and …
Food sanctuaries: TV characters' favorite places to calm down and fatten up. Jul 10, 2015 10:00 AM. Facebook · Twitter · Google+ · Tumblr · Pinterest · Disqus ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jul 15»
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OUR VIEWPOINT: Industry boom helps fatten city budget kitties
OUR VIEWPOINT: Industry boom helps fatten city budget kitties. Story. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger ... «Brazosport Facts, Jul 15»
3
Belcampo aims to turn Santa Monica into carnivore land
It is probably the steak that our great-grandparents enjoyed, in the time before meatpackers discovered how to over-fatten their cattle with corn. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
4
Meet Billionaire Hero of the Left Nat Simons
He pays think tanks to formulate policies that fatten his wallet. He contributes vast sums to politics – both in direct support of candidates and in ... «Human Events, Jul 15»
5
Alex Rance was at his best against Carlton, showing why he's one of …
If Rance just signed a lucrative four-year deal, this performance won't exactly fatten the bottom line of Henderson's. Yet for three quarters ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
6
Place Your Bets on the 2015 Diamondbacks: Half-way
I can only presume that trying to fatten his numbers up against left-handed pitching, with the view to a trade, is part of why Jake Lamb hasn't ... «AZ Snake Pit, Jul 15»
7
TED 2 - Film Review
These, I think, are subjects that could have helped fatten the story up more. As humans, we like to see more portrayals of ourselves through the ... «Namibia Economist, Jul 15»
8
Buddy, Trixie; Ivins man steps, saving 2 malnourished horses
“My objective is to fatten them up, you know, muscle them up a little bit, and then find them good homes.” Support. Steve Weida said he will ... «St George News, Jul 15»
9
SC Asset Corporation
Despite its moderate top-line growth target, management aims to improve efficiency and lower SG&A/sales expenses to fatten its net margin. «The Nation, Jul 15»
10
Renzi's corruption & dishonor will finally be punished
Renzi abused and soiled the founders' gift for years, viewing it as just another means to fatten his pocketbook. Now convicted, Renzi must ... «Camp Verde Journal, Jul 15»

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