fatten
Example Sentences
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"I am thinking of setting up a new unit with my son for fattening calves," he says.
From BBC
They are used to supply farms where they are fattened up for sale in Asia where eels are a highly sought delicacy.
From Barron's
He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".
From BBC
Soybean Export Council, a trade group, opened a Beijing office in 1982 to spread the word about protein-packed U.S. soybeans used to fatten livestock.
One term for the scams is pig butchering, because the scammers “fatten up” their targets by entangling them in romantic relationships online and dangling bogus financial schemes, then “butcher” them by disappearing with their money.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
