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fattened

[ UK /fˈætənd/ ]
[ US /ˈfætənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of market animals) made ready for market

How To Use fattened In A Sentence

  • The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.
  • The feeder pig is waiting to be fattened up.
  • Although some references explain its etymology as being from old French hutaudeau, meaning a pullet (a young hen), the derivation was in fact hétoudeau or hétourdeau which was a capon (a fattened cock fowl).
  • [Footnote: The ortolan is a very small bird, which is fattened in lamp lighted rooms at great expense, because it is found to be of a more delicate flavor when excluded from the daylight. History of King Charles the Second of England
  • A famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
  • The sheep fattened up quickly.
  • The limit of his agrarian radicalism was a demand, conceded by the British, for the removal of differential between Irish fat cattle and animals fattened in Britain.
  • But the father said to his slaves, “Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.” Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • Prodigal servings of pure saturated (often fluorescent) color are fattened further with a rich welter of tints, tones and shades.
  • Each year, the gross Social Security check is "fattened" by a few dollars. The Necessary Remedy
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