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Verb: fattening  fat-ning or fa-tu-ning
  1. (of food) tending to the eater overweight
Adjective: fattening  fat-ning or fa-tu-ning
  1. Subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter
    "a fattening hog"; "fattening pens"
Verb: fatten  fa-t(u)n
  1. Make fat or plump
    "We will fatten out that poor starving child";
    - fat [archaic], flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up

See also: fill up, finished

Type of: alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Fattening