Antonyms for fatten

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fat-n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæt n

Definition of fatten

Origin : 1550s, from fat + -en (1). Related: Fattened. The earlier verb was simply fat (Old English fættian "to become fat, fatten"); e.g. fatted calf.

verb grow or make bigger; nourish

Example sentences :

He began to joke, and told his brother that he would undertake to fatten him.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

But the principal use to which we put them is to fatten our pigs.
Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay

Are men who have these institutions only to eat and fatten like beasts?
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

As for me, I am over-young to break my neck and be left on the mountain-side to fatten crows.
Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini

Fatten them up well, and the foreigners will give me good prices.'
Extract from : « The Little Girl Lost » by Eleanor Raper

If I cannot share the bed of roses, I can at least fatten on the smell.
Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

Quite convinced that I haven't hidden her away to fatten for my breakfast?
Extract from : « Mary Rose of Mifflin » by Frances R. Sterrett

The ill humour that dries up my dear master seems to fatten his dear pupil.
Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley

Of course he'll want Atland emaciated to fatten Haxard, as he calls it.
Extract from : « The Story of a Play » by W. D. Howells

You have conquered us but we have taught a lesson to the men who fatten on our suffering.'
Extract from : « A Girl of the Commune » by George Alfred Henty

Synonyms for fatten

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