To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy, or plump with fat.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

To feed grossly; to fill.

fat’n. to grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man’s labor. Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed. The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead.