fatten up in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for fatten up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

I.fatten [Am ˈfætn, Brit ˈfat(ə)n] VB trans

II.fatten [Am ˈfætn, Brit ˈfat(ə)n] VB intr

I.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADV up often appears as the second element of certain verb structures in English (back up, pick up, sit up, etc). For translations, see the relevant verb entry (back, pick, sit, etc).

1.1. up (in upward direction):

up a bitleft a bit
up United! Brit

II.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] PREP

III.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADJ

IV.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB trans inf

V.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB intr

See also come up to

fatten up in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for fatten up in the Spanish»English Dictionary

Translations for fatten up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

IV.up <-pp-> [ʌp] VB intr inf

British English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Just like a bear that's trying to fatten up for winter, a smallmouth bass is no different.
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If you're going to go after the bookworms, fatten up some of the nearby branches.
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Later season oysters will be a little meatier as they fatten up for winter.
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Acorns provide fat that is needed to fatten up for the winter.
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The whales eat several tonnes a day to fatten up for their journeys.
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The lambs graze and fatten up on summer grass and are all the better for it.
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Once eels safely reach their upstream nursery grounds they can take anything from five to 15 years to fatten up and reach adulthood.
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This often leads to cramped conditions and the need to fatten up birds as quickly as possible to shave the overall cost of feeding them.
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In other words, most of our beef comes from animals that spent some time in a feedlot to fatten up.
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We're sick to the back teeth with taxes that fatten up an unjust state.
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