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🧑 To give form 🐖 To make plump
to enflesh

to enflesh

9.9
To make an animal or person fatter
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈflɛʃ/
translation icon : engordar
  • The farmer hoped to enflesh the young pig before market with richer feed.

Examples

  • In the old days, people would enflesh livestock before winter to ensure survival.

  • The cook believed a special diet could enflesh the chickens quickly.

  • The chef aims to enflesh the dish with rich sauces.

  • The farmer enfleshed the livestock to prepare for market.

  • The farmer hoped to enflesh the young pig before market with richer feed.

  • In the old days, people would enflesh livestock before winter to ensure survival.

  • The cook believed a special diet could enflesh the chickens quickly.

Synonyms

to fatten
vsto enflesh
45 2.2

To make an animal gain weight and a sauce taste richer by giving more or richer food

focuses on producing flesh rather than on natural weight gain
to fatten up
vsto enflesh
10 2.3

To give extra food so a person or animal gains weight

does not stress feeding method and highlights making flesh
to fat
vsto enflesh
8 7.7

To make someone gain body weight

makes fleshier specifically rather than only increasing general weight
to plump
vsto enflesh
5 3.8

To make someone or something fuller and rounder

focuses on producing flesh rather than nonfood methods like fluffing
to fatten out
vsto enflesh
4.9

To make an animal or person gain weight

emphasizes creating fleshy roundness rather than subtle weight change
to plump out
vsto enflesh
  • UK
6.1

To make someone or something rounder and fuller

is about making flesh rather than only changing outer shape

Antonyms

to slim
8 2.4

To become thinner by losing fat

How Fleshy

to fatten
45 2.2
to enflesh
9.9
to plump
5 3.8
to bloat
19 4.9

Surface Forms

enflesh infinitive
enfleshed past
enfleshed past participle
enfleshing present participle
enfleshes third person singular

Morphology

enflesh = flesh (transparent) = en + flesh

A straightforward causative formation 'en-' + 'flesh' meaning 'to make fleshy' or 'to add flesh'.

Etymology

Enflesh also comes from the parts en- 'in' and flesh, and a helpful way to remember this sense is to think of 'making flesh' — to make something meatier or plumper. That's why it can mean to make an animal or thing fleshy or to fatten it.