Enlarge vs Fatten - What's the difference?
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To make larger.
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11
To speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject)
* 1664 , (Samuel Butler), Hudibras 2.2.68:
(archaic) To release; to set at large.
* 1580 , (Philip Sidney), Arcadia 329:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
* Barrow
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II Scene II:
(nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
(legal) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
To become fatter
To cause to be fatter
To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
Enlarge is a related term of fatten.
In lang=en terms the difference between enlarge and fatten
is that enlarge is to speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject) while fatten is to make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.As verbs the difference between enlarge and fatten
is that enlarge is to make larger while fatten is to become fatter.enlarge
English
Verb
(enlarg)- Knowledge enlarges the mind.
- O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged .
- I shall enlarge upon the Point.
- Like a Lionesse lately enlarged .
- Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge , / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.
- It will enlarge us from all restraints.
- Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
- (Abbott)
References
*Anagrams
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English
Verb
(en verb)- He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
- We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
- to fatten land
- (Dryden)