fatten
verb [transitive, intransitive]Word Family
- fat adjective
- fatty adjective
- fatten verb
- fattening adjective
- fatten (somebody/something) (up)
to make somebody/something fatter, especially an animal before killing it for food; to become fatter （使）长胖，长肥；（尤指动物宰杀前）育肥 The piglets are taken from the sow to be fattened for market. 这些小猪被从母猪身边带走，好育肥上市。 She's very thin after her illness—but we'll soon fatten her up. 她病后瘦得很，不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFatten is used with these nouns as the object:- pig