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🍔 Causing weight gain 🐄 For animal growth
fattening

fattening

5.6
Places or equipment for feeding animals so they gain weight before slaughter
  • adjective
  • /ˈfætənɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : 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

lean
108 2.5

Thin with little extra fat or money

starving
1 1.4

Very hungry and needing food now

How Fattening

rich
73 3.0
fattening
  • Specialized
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.