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    FATTEN UP

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Make fat or plumpplay

    Example:

    We will plump out that poor starving child

    Synonyms:

    fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out

    Classified under:

    Verbs of eating and drinking

    Hypernyms (to "fatten up" is one way to...):

    alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

    "Fatten up" entails doing...:

    feed; give (give food to)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody

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