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Fatten vs Ratten - What's the difference?

fatten | ratten |

As a verb fatten

is to become fatter.

As an adjective ratten is

rotten.

fatten

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To become fatter
    • He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
  • To cause to be fatter
    • We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
  • To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
    • to fatten land
    (Dryden)

    Synonyms

    * (become fatter) get fat, grow fat, put on weight, gain

    See also

    * fattening * fatten up

    ratten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, Northern England) To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute, particularly the tools of a workman who went against the union.
  • * 1947 , Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Say The Word , p 100:
    • ...derived from the sabot or shoe beneath railway lines. The saboteur was thus a remover of metal shoes, a train-wrecker. I must leave it at that. Meanwhile why not restore ratten to its old place in the Trade Union vocabulary, that is if, in these times of scant, we must endure any such wanton hindrance of the works?
  • * 1867 , Report Presented to the Trades Unions Commissioners by the Examiners Appointed to Inquire Into Acts of Intimidation, Outrage, Or Wrong Alleged to Have Been Promoted, Encouraged, Or Connived at by Trades Unions in the Town of Sheffield, Great Britain. . G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867. p. 225:
    • Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?
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