Made or became fat; fed and cared for to increase weight and fat content, especially in livestock.
Past tense and past participle of 'fatten,' from Old English 'fættan' (to make fat), derived from the adjective 'fat' (fætt).
The practice of fattening animals reflects a huge discovery in agricultural history—someone realized that giving animals lots of good food wasn't wasteful, but actually created more valuable meat.
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