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fattening

VERB

grow or make bigger; nourish

Synonyms

STRONGEST

augment broaden build up swell

STRONG

bloat coarsen cram distend expand feed fill increase overfeed plump spread stuff thicken thrive wax

WEAK

gain weight put flesh on put on weight round out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

decrease

STRONG

contract deflate deplete lose shrink

WEAK

thin undernourish

Example Sentences

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The Victorian glasshouses nurture fattening peaches, while in the main garden beyond, a tower of water bursts up into the sky—the highest powered fountain in England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Monday’s game offered yet another example of how the team that supposedly is ruining baseball is fattening the wallets of the league’s other 29 teams.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

For example, it banned the export of live animals from Great Britain for slaughter and fattening and changed EU laws on gene editing crops.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

Alternatively, hunters may have caught and ‘adopted’ a lamb, fattening it during the months of plenty and slaughtering it in the leaner season.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari