Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Made fat or fatter, especially for slaughter: Describes an animal that has been deliberately fed extra food to increase its weight, typically to prepare it for sale or consumption.
   • Plumped up, well-fed: Can describe something that has been enriched or made more substantial, though this is less common.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The farmer sold the fattened pigs at the market.
  • We prefer the taste of meat from fattened cattle.

Advanced Usage

• "fattened up": A common phrasal form emphasizing the process of making an animal fat.
  • The geese were fattened up for the holiday feast.
• Used figuratively to describe non-living things that have been enriched or augmented.
  • The company's profits were fattened by the new acquisition. (Note: This is a figurative extension; the core meaning relates to animals.)

Variants and Related Words

• Fatten (verb): To make or become fat.
  • They fatten the livestock with a special grain mix.
• Fat (adjective/noun): Having a large amount of excess flesh; the oily substance found in animals.
• Fattening (adjective): Causing an increase in weight.
  • That cake is very fattening.

Synonyms

• Fattened: Fed up, plumped, crammed (for animals).
• Fatten: Stuff, plump, cram.

Antonyms

• Fattened: Underfed, starved, emaciated.
• Fatten: Starve, slim down.

Related Phrases

• Fattening pen/yard: An enclosure where animals are fed to increase their weight.
  • The calves are moved to the fattening pen for the final month.
• Fatten for market: The specific purpose of the fattening process.
  • The traditional practice is to fatten the turkeys for market in the autumn.

Adjective

1. (of market animals) made ready for market