fatten in the PONS Dictionary

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This originally referred to the fact that clover is fattening to cattle.
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He uses effects likea wah-wah or distortion to fatten his sound into a more throbbing mass.
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He also become involved in private businesses, such as fattening beef cattle.
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In cursive hieratic writings this sign appears as a circle with one or two fattened, horizontal or diagonal lines.
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Calves are generally shipped to out-of-state feedlots in the fall to be fattened for market.
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Fattening chickens with bread soaked in milk was thought to give especially delicious results.
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Soon after fattening his herd, the cattle market bottomed out.
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The cattle were highly prized for their milking and fattening abilities.
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Prior to spawning, the herring have not fattened.
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By contemporary standards, the grass-fed cattle are rather scrawny, as fattening them up on corn had not become general practice.
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