English verb: fatten up | |||
1. | fatten up (consumption) make fat or plump | ||
Samples | We will plump out that poor starving child. | ||
Synonyms | fat, fatten, fatten out, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
Entail | feed, give | ||