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1.
fatten
v.
28 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To grow fat or obese; to become fattened for food; (b) to make (a person, the body) fat or obese; to fatten (animals) for food.
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sufferen
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474 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To undergo physical, mental, or spiritual distress or affliction, suffer;
sufferen o (of)
, suffer from (care, an affliction); also, have death inflicted upon one by (sb.) [quot. c1400(?a1387)];
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