"fatten up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fattens up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fattened up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fattening up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fattening up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fatten<,fattened,fattening> up"
      },
      "expansion": "fatten up (third-person singular simple present fattens up, present participle fattened up, simple past and past participle fattening up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My cat looks underweight, so I'll fatten him up with higher-calorie cat food.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I visited my mother for a month, and she managed to fatten me up 20 pounds.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to gain weight by means of feeding."
      ],
      "id": "en-fatten_up-en-verb-v2nDYgVL",
      "links": [
        [
          "gain weight",
          "weight gain"
        ],
        [
          "feed",
          "feed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause to gain weight by means of feeding."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "12 79 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Colm Tóibín, chapter 8, in The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, page 246:",
          "text": "‘And isn’t Declan looking very thin?’ Madge said. ‘He’ll never get a wife if he doesn’t fatten up a bit.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become fat or fatter by gaining weight."
      ],
      "id": "en-fatten_up-en-verb-tYxZJfnz",
      "links": [
        [
          "gaining weight",
          "gain weight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become fat or fatter by gaining weight."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of the Army Appropriations for 1955: Hearings, page 161:",
          "text": "We must not fatten up our payroll with people performing nonessential activities.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make bigger; to expand."
      ],
      "id": "en-fatten_up-en-verb-B7GxXj2l",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To make bigger; to expand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fatten up"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fattens up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fattened up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fattening up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fattening up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "fatten<,fattened,fattening> up"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My cat looks underweight, so I'll fatten him up with higher-calorie cat food.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I visited my mother for a month, and she managed to fatten me up 20 pounds.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to gain weight by means of feeding."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gain weight",
          "weight gain"
        ],
        [
          "feed",
          "feed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause to gain weight by means of feeding."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Colm Tóibín, chapter 8, in The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, page 246:",
          "text": "‘And isn’t Declan looking very thin?’ Madge said. ‘He’ll never get a wife if he doesn’t fatten up a bit.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become fat or fatter by gaining weight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gaining weight",
          "gain weight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become fat or fatter by gaining weight."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of the Army Appropriations for 1955: Hearings, page 161:",
          "text": "We must not fatten up our payroll with people performing nonessential activities.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make bigger; to expand."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To make bigger; to expand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fatten up"
}