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fatten

C1 verb

fatten /ˈfætən/ nghĩa là vỗ béo

Các nghĩa

  1. vỗ béo

    To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

    transitive

    We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.

    In that classroom full of oily potato-chip-fattened adolescents, she was everyone’s ideal of translucent perfume-advertisement femininity.

  2. béo ra, mập ra

    To become fat or fatter.

    intransitive

    He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.

    His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk […]

    Mushrooms fatten in the warm September rain.

  3. làm dày thêm, phình to

    To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).

    transitive

    “You horrible old man, you’ve always tried to turn Erik into a slave, to fatten your pocketbook! […]”

  4. dày lên, phình ra

    To become thick or thicker.

    intransitive

    The pencil-line of light by his feet fattened to a bar. Alan looked around and saw Norris Ridgewick.

  5. làm cho màu mỡ, bồi bổ đất

    To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.

    transitive

    to fatten land

  6. trở nên màu mỡ, phì nhiêu

    To become fertile and fruitful.

    intransitive

    These hostile Fields shall fatten with thy Blood.

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