Thesaurus / fatten
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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.
THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE SALMONBY BRIAN BENNETT/LAPWAI, IDAHO WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY KILIII YÜYANOCTOBER 18, 2021TIMEWhen 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.
2021 FALL DINING GUIDETOM SIETSEMAOCTOBER 6, 2021WASHINGTON POSTTortoises 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 BEST WAYS TO WRANGLE, REPEL, AND JUST GET SNAKES OUT OF YOUR HOMENATALIE WALLINGTONOCTOBER 1, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe 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.
CAN A SUBSCRIPTION MODEL FIX PRIMARY CARE IN THE U.S.?BERNARD J. WOLFSONJUNE 3, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAll 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.
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING'S GREEN RETROFIT WAS A SUCCESS. WILL OTHER BUILDINGS FOLLOW SUIT?ALEJANDRO DE LA GARZAMAY 10, 2021TIMESo long as the tax cuts kept flowing, the only “speech” that corporations engaged in came from their wallets, which in turn were fattened by those tax cuts.
REPUBLICANS ARE LEARNING THAT THERE’S MORE TO CAPITALISM THAN TAX CUTSCATHERINE RAMPELLAPRIL 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThose early programs fostered hunting opportunities, but raising birds in covered pens where they were safe from predation and fattened up on easy, rich food sources didn’t exactly produce good fliers.
HOW NON-NATIVE PHEASANTS PROTECT AMERICAN BIODIVERSITYWES SILERAPRIL 1, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEPast thirty all men begin to dry up or fatten, and he was certainly a lean person.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDThere is no more depraved class of people in the world than those human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.
FIGHTING THE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLSVARIOUSHe also observed the disposition to fatten in individuals, and used only such as were conspicuous in this respect.
DOMESTIC ANIMALSRICHARD L. ALLENWORDS RELATED TO FATTEN
- accumulated
- added to
- aggravated
- amplified
- augmented
- ballooned
- be inflated
- became bloated
- became swollen
- become distended
- bellied
- billowed
- blistered
- bloated
- bulged
- dilated
- distended
- enhanced
- enlarged
- expanded
- extended
- fattened
- filled out
- grew
- grew larger
- heightened
- increased
- intensitied
- mounted
- plumped
- pouched
- pouted
- protruded
- puffed
- puffed up
- rose
- rounded out
- surged
- tumefied
- uprised
- well up
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