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fatten

verb as in grow or make bigger; nourish

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The ones that make it to the ocean fatten up on plankton and then head back upriver to spawn in the same creek where they were born.

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When guests asked for more vegetarian options, Anju responded with dishes including wangmandu, big crisp dumplings fattened with Impossible Meat and finished with a racy chile crunch.

Tortoises begin digging burrows, bears fatten up for the winter, and Popular Science writers turn to a steady diet of hot chocolate and cheesy pasta dishes.

The big bet of One Medical and companies like it is that greater spending on primary care will fatten their bottom lines while reducing overall health costs for their clients.

All told, the upgrades have cut the building’s energy usage by about 40%, saved its owners more than $4 million every year and played a part in attracting high-value tenants that have fattened the building’s bottom line.

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

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

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

Past thirty all men begin to dry up or fatten, and he was certainly a lean person.

There is no more depraved class of people in the world than those human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.

He also observed the disposition to fatten in individuals, and used only such as were conspicuous in this respect.

I would deplete the government—forage, as it were, on the enemy—thereby to fatten my purse.

Why that wordIs rich in promise, in the action bankrupt.What faculty of mine, save dream-fed pride,Can these things fatten?

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fatten, such as: augment, broaden, build up, swell, bloat, and coarsen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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