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For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.
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Meaning of "fattening" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FATTENING

fattening  [ˈfæt ənɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FATTENING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fattening is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FATTENING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fattening

Overweight

Overweight is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is a common condition, especially where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary. Excess weight has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese in 2003. In 2013 this increased to more than 2 billion. Increases have been observed across all age groups. A healthy body requires a minimum amount of fat for the proper functioning of the hormonal, reproductive, and immune systems, as thermal insulation, as shock absorption for sensitive areas, and as energy for future use. But the accumulation of too much storage fat can impair movement and flexibility, and can alter the appearance of the body.

Definition of fattening in the English dictionary

The definition of fattening in the dictionary is likely to cause to grow fat or fatter.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FATTENING


air-conditioning
ˈɛəkənˌdɪʃ ənɪŋ
awakening
əˈweɪkənɪŋ
conditioning
kənˈdɪʃənɪŋ
decommissioning
ˌdiːkəˈmɪʃ ənɪŋ
enlightening
ɪnˈlaɪt ənɪŋ
enlivening
ɪnˈlaɪv ənɪŋ
fastening
ˈfɑːsənɪŋ
frightening
ˈfraɪt ənɪŋ
gardening
ˈɡɑːdənɪŋ
governing
ˈɡʌvənɪŋ
happening
ˈhæpənɪŋ
ironing
ˈaɪənɪŋ
opening
ˈəʊpənɪŋ
poisoning
ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ
positioning
pəˈzɪʃənɪŋ
questioning
ˈkwɛstʃənɪŋ
reasoning
ˈriːzənɪŋ
strengthening
ˈstreŋθənɪŋ
threatening
ˈθrɛtənɪŋ
tightening
ˈtaɪtənɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FATTENING

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE FATTENING

beginning
christening
deepening
easy listening
evening
good evening
grand opening
greening
hardening
intervening
lightening
listening
loosening
screening
sharpening
shortening
thickening
weakening
whitening
widening
worsening

Synonyms and antonyms of fattening in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FATTENING»

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

Translation of «fattening» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FATTENING

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

Translator English - Chinese

> 易使人长胖的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

que engorda
570 millions of speakers

English

fattening
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تسمين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

откорм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

engordativo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মোটাতাজাকরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

qui fait grossir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

menggemukkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dick machend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

>太らせる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

살이 찌게 하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fattening
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm thành tốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொழுப்புநிறைந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेदयुक्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

besi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

che fa ingrassare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tuczu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відгодівлю
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

îngrășare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πάχυνση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gödning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fetende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fattening

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FATTENING»

The term «fattening» is quite widely used and occupies the 50.972 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FATTENING» OVER TIME

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

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6 QUOTES WITH «FATTENING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fattening.
1
Neal Barnard
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.
2
Wendy Davis
Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
3
Carla Hall
For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.
4
Alfred Hitchcock
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
5
Alexander Woollcott
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
6
Alexander Woollcott
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FATTENING»

Discover the use of fattening in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fattening and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fattening of America: How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If ...
When you understand how these powerful forces work, you can do a better job of resisting them—and staying healthy." —Jack Challem, bestselling author of The Food-Mood Solution and Stop Prediabetes Now "Everyone who eats food in America ...
Eric A. Finkelstein, Laurie Zuckerman, 2010
2
The Fattening Hut
A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.
Pat Lowery Collins, 2005
3
I Can't Believe It's Not Fattening!: Over 150 Ridiculously ...
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Devin Alexander, 2010
4
Fattening: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations FatheringIt is never easy being a mother.
‎2008
5
Cross-cultural Nursing: Anthropological Approaches to ...
Pamela I Brink Among the rural Annang1 there is a custom called the Fattening Room (British "Fatting Room," cf. P. Talbot 1914), the purpose of which is to seclude individuals from their customary duties and companions, feed them a variety ...
Janice M. Morse, 1989
6
Fattening Poultry - A Collection of Articles on the Methods ...
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.
Various, 2011
7
Death by Supermarket: The Fattening, Dumbing Down, and ...
This well-researched guide based on scientific studies reveals the imminent danger behind the low fat/low cholesterol diet and links the introduction of this diet to the proliferation of high-fructose corn syrup, vegetable oil, endocrine ...
Nancy Deville, 2011
8
Poultry Feeding and Fattening
... Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 89 Canadian Feeding Machine in Operation . . . . . . . . . . .. 91 Funnel for Cramming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 93 Fattening and Killing Sheds, France 95 English Fattening Pen .
‎1908
9
Alpan: Livestock Credit in Nigeria: a Case of the ...
Liveweight gain in itself may not be a critical consideration for the farmer who has a profit motive behind fattening livestock. The profit margin of the operation is the main concern of the farmer. No matter what the gain in liveweight is, it does not ...
International Livestock Research Institute
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Roughage for fattening lambs
White sweet clover is an excellent roughage, when : fed with a grain ration, for fattening lambs. The gains \ made rank next and close to gains made by lambs fed alfalfa hay as a roughage. This plant has a place in our system of grain and ...
James Wilbur Wilson, 1913

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FATTENING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fattening is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Brief History of the To-Do List
... goals and other standards would be nothing more than aimless change, like trying to diet without any idea of which foods are fattening. «TIME, Jul 15»
2
Bernie: Cardinals needed a shortstop? Here's Jhonny!
... money, players that are named Josh Hamilton, or hitters that duped naive GMs by fattening their statistics in parks that greatly inflate offense. «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
3
JESSICA LAWS: Getting the skinny on obesity
I'm alone in my car and nobody would see me enjoy this awfully fattening but 'oh-so-yummy' lunch. A voice in my head states, “you are what ... «Belleville Intelligencer, Jul 15»
4
The Gallows
Instead of fattening the already overstuffed coffers of Time-Warner, why not try making your own found footage horror film? Chances are ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
5
Collaborative farming – the future for family farms?
... operators of a backgrounding block (and in turn, the operators of a fattening block / feedlot) where resources (whether it be land, manpower, ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
6
Food Security Prospects Getting Brighter
... and technical support for productive investment sin irrigation, terracing, livestock fattening and other activities such as bee-keeping. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
7
Scooter Braun Defends Ariana Grande On Twitter & Gets Tied Up In …
... performer says she's sorry and that her comments were taken out of context and are just a reflection on how she feels about fattening foods. «ETCanada.com, Jul 15»
8
Finance and business jobs drive wage growth of top 1%, report says
The sector that's fattening the wallets of the richest is finance and business. Although people with medical degrees make up one in 10 of ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
9
Donut Shop Owner Lashes out at Ariana Grande: 'She Should Be …
Grande said she was reacting to the tray of fattening donuts and that eating too much of this stuff is bad for your health. “As an advocate for ... «Inside Edition, Jul 15»
10
High-dollar fundraising makes comeback, raises bribery concerns
Even bigger donations are fattening super PACs that ostensibly must keep candidates at arm's length, but that increasingly operate as an ... «SunHerald.com, Jul 15»

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