verdikken — meaning in English
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English meaning
- blimp noun An airship kept in shape by the pressure of the gas inside it, rather than a rigid frame.
- fatten verb To make an animal or person fatter, often by feeding them richly.
- flesh noun The soft tissue of a human or animal body, especially muscle and fat, as distinct from bone.
- thicken verb To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
Senses
verdikken is used for these senses in English:
- blimp (slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
- fatten (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
- fatten (intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.
- flesh (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
- thicken (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
blimp — full definition
- noun An airship kept in shape by the pressure of the gas inside it, rather than a rigid frame.
- noun Informal, sometimes unkind, term for an overweight person.
fatten — full definition
- verb To make an animal or person fatter, often by feeding them richly.
- verb To make something bigger or thicker, especially a fund or amount of money.