1550s, "to make fat," from fat + -en (1). Intransitive sense from 1630s. Related: Fattened; fattener. The earlier verb was simply fat (v.).
fatigues
Fatimid
fatling
fatness
Fatso
fatten
fattening
fatty
fatuity
fatuous
fatwa
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