Fattens [verb]

Past thirty all men begin to dry up or fatten, and he was certainly a lean person.

There is no more depraved class of people in the world than those human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.

He also observed the disposition to fatten in individuals, and used only such as were conspicuous in this respect.

I would deplete the government—forage, as it were, on the enemy—thereby to fatten my purse.

Why that wordIs rich in promise, in the action bankrupt.What faculty of mine, save dream-fed pride,Can these things fatten?

The corn is generally bought for hog feed and as these animals quickly fatten upon it, it is profitable.

Oxen and cows will not fatten by themselves, but will neglect the finest pasture that is not recommended by society.

Businesses that fatten on misfortune—the saloon, pawn, old clothes and cheap food shops-lined the squalid Cowgate.

They fatten easily, however, and arrive soon at maturity, though reckoned inferior in these respects to the Cheviot variety.

When three years old, they fatten well, affording excellent highly-flavoured mutton, and weighing from 10 lbs.