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fatten up

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Verb1.fatten up - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
fat, fatten, fatten out, flesh out, plump out, plump, fill out
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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Less sea ice means less krill, so the birds may need to fatten up before they arrive to breed.
Antarctic birds are breeding later by Science News
Rather, rodents would fatten up this year and then reproduce more offspring in the coming year.
RAIN MAY BOOST WEST NILE VIRUS THREAT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In the wild, Magellanic penguins live on the southernmost coasts of South America and migrate every fall: They set off on a 5-month-long swimfest north to warm waters off Brazil, where they fatten up on fish before swimming back home to mate and molt (shed all their feathers).
Whirlpool! (Life/Animal Behavior) by Masibay, Kim Y. / Science World
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