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fat
/fæt/
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  1. verb
    make fat or plump

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    fatten fatten out fatten up fill out flesh out plump plump out
    type of:
    alter modify change
  2. adjective
    lucrative
    "a nice fat job"

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    juicy profitable
  3. adjective
    marked by great fruitfulness
    "a fat land"

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    fertile productive rich fruitful
  4. noun
    excess bodily weight
    "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"

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    avoirdupois blubber fatness
    type of:
    bodily property
  5. noun
    a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
    "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"

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    adipose tissue fatty tissue
    type of:
    animal tissue
  6. adjective
    containing or composed of fat
    "fatty food" "fat tissue"

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    fatty adipose greasy buttery superfatted oleaginous oily suety sebaceous
  7. noun
    a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
    "pizza has too much fat"
    type of:
    lipide lipid lipoid
  8. adjective
    having an (over)abundance of flesh
    "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

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    zoftig abdominous blubbery buxom chubby corpulent double-chinned dumpy embonpoint fattish fleshy gross heavy jowly loose-jowled obese overweight paunchy plump podgy porcine portly potbellied pudgy roly-poly rotund stout tubby weighty zaftig
    Opposite:
    thin
  9. adjective
    having a relatively large diameter
    "a fat rope"

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    thick
Parts of fat
  • "glyceride"
  • "acylglycerol"
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