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fatten

verb as in grow or make bigger; nourish

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Example Sentences

We should judge innovators not on whether they fatten our wallets, but whether their products enrich our lives.

The Drug Enforcement Administration partners with local police forces to fatten budgets with seizures from dealers.

So where are the angry headlines and government initiatives to fatten up our jockeys?

Past thirty all men begin to dry up or fatten, and he was certainly a lean person.

There is no more depraved class of people in the world than those human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.

He also observed the disposition to fatten in individuals, and used only such as were conspicuous in this respect.

I would deplete the government—forage, as it were, on the enemy—thereby to fatten my purse.

Why that wordIs rich in promise, in the action bankrupt.What faculty of mine, save dream-fed pride,Can these things fatten?

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fatten, such as: augment, broaden, build up, swell, bloat, and coarsen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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