fatten

Object

• pig: I mean John Howard once said, or said with respect to this election, you can't fatten the pig on market day.
• calf: The female calves were kept to maintain the milking herd and the bull calves fattened and sold for meat.
• goose: People during the Middle Ages also ate fattened geese.
• cattle: Virginia has to weigh up the extra cost of organic feed against the price gained for the fattened cattle.
• sheep: Conkers where also eaten by deer and cattle and in the past were sometimes ground up as meal to fatten sheep.

Preposition: on

• pasture: The oxen are of various breeds; the heaviest kinds are fattened on the rich pastures of this county.
• grass: The Herefords were a hardy breed and could generally be kept out of doors throughout the year and fattened largely on grass.

Modifying Another Word

• very: For example, if this diet is very fattening, John will tend to gain more than you will.
• not: Carbohydrates are not fattening, potatoes contain no fat at all!
• then: They were then fattened on turnips, on which they were folded, and sold as quality mutton.
• often: Often fattening pens do not even have an exit door.
• specially: Salt fish, oysters, mussels or the specially fattened dormice cooked in a variety of ways.
• quickly: Border Leicesters coul d be fattened quickly for the town market.

Followed by a transitive particle

up: Anyway, I am working on getting him fattened up a bit.

Particle object:

• everyone: If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.
• sound: By far the main effect that gets used is an ambient setting to fatten up the overall sound, and I rarely use echo.

Preposition: for

• market: Lambs, when still very little, are sold to farms on lower-lying ground to fatten for the consumer market.
• slaughter: These lambs are fattened for slaughter elsewhere in the UK or in Europe.
• butcher: Dorset Down lambs, fattened for the butcher, are renowned for the quantity and exceptional quality of their tender and delicately flavored meat.