Crossword-Solution: FATTEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fatten | v. t. | To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat. |
| Fatten | v. t. | To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. |
| Fatten | v. i. | To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FATTEN (5)
Uncle Venner’s pig was fed entirely, and kept in prime order, on these eleemosynary contributions; insomuch that the patched philosopher used to promise that, before retiring to his farm, he would make a feast of the portly grunter, and invite all his neighbors to partake of the joints and spare-ribs which they had helped to fatten.
Like cattle, with their eyes always looking down and their heads stooping to the earth, that is, to the dining-table, they fatten and feed and breed, and, in their excessive love of these delights, they kick and butt at one another with horns and hoofs which are made of iron; and they kill one another by reason of their insatiable lust.
The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten.
You are quick to see the blemish in the distant neighbor's style, You can point to all his errors and may sneer at him the while, And your prejudices fatten and your hates more violent grow As you talk about the failures of the man you do not know, But when drawn a little closer, and your hands and shoulders touch, You find the traits you hated really don't amount to much.
The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time; he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living.
Quotes with FATTEN (3)
Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?'Exactly; that is the real distinction between the artist and the bourgeois, or, if you prefer it, between the gentleman and the cad. Money, and the things money can buy, have no…
I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator, whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us here below to fulfil our duties as citizens and fathers of families; but I don't need to go to church to kiss silver plates, and fatten, out of my pocket, a lot of good-for-nothings who live better than we do. For one can know him as well in a wood, in a field, or even contemplating the eternal vault like the ancients. My God! mine is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire…
They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1960–2021).