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🍔 Causing weight gain 🐄 For animal growth
fattening

fattening

1 5.6
Places or equipment for feeding animals so they gain weight before slaughter
  • adjective
  • /ˈfætənɪŋ/
  • Specialized
: engordante
  • Cattle kept in fattening sheds are given a special diet to gain weight quickly.

Examples

  • The farmer placed the pigs in a fattening pen before sending them to market.

  • The ranch invested in new fattening equipment to improve their livestock's growth.

  • The fattening process can take several months.

  • These fattening supplements are essential for livestock growth.

  • Cattle kept in fattening sheds are given a special diet to gain weight quickly.

  • The farmer placed the pigs in a fattening pen before sending them to market.

  • The ranch invested in new fattening equipment to improve their livestock's growth.

Antonyms

starving
246 1.4

Very hungry and needing food now

lean
140 2.5

Thin with little extra fat or money

How Fattening

rich
62 3.0
fattening
  • Specialized
1 5.6
low-cal
  • Informal
5 3.1

Surface Forms

fattening positive

Morphology

fattening = fatten (transparent) = fat + en + ing

The verb 'fatten' (from 'fat' + productive suffix -en) is the clear immediate base and adding '-ing' creates the adjectival form describing something that causes fattening.

Etymology

Fattening comes from the common word fat ('full of fat') plus the verb ending -en ('to make'), so it literally means 'making fat'. Farmers use fattening for sheds, pens, or equipment that help animals gain weight before they are sent to market.