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動詞

fatten up (三人称単数 現在形 fattens up, 現在分詞 fattened up, 過去形および過去分詞形 fattening up)

1. (transitive) To cause to gain weight by means of feeding.

   My cat looks underweight, so I'll fatten him up with higher-calorie cat food.

   I visited my mother for a month, and she managed to fatten me up 20 pounds.

2. (intransitive) To become fat or fatter by gaining weight.
   • 1999, Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, Chapter 8, p. 246,^[1]

     ‘And isn’t Declan looking very thin?’ Madge said. ‘He’ll never get a wife if he doesn’t fatten up a bit.’

3. (transitive, figuratively) To make bigger; to expand.
   • 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of the Army Appropriations for 1955: Hearings (page 161)

     We must not fatten up our payroll with people performing nonessential activities.