battening
压条,压缝剂,压缝机,接缝
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Definitions
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- : to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- : to feed gluttonously or greedily; glut oneself.
- : to thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others: robber barons who battened on the poor.
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- : to cause to thrive by or as if by feeding; fatten.
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Examples
Extreme cold sucks no matter what, and even us northerners tend to batten down the hatches once it dips below -30 or -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
With profits down over 90 percent and a spate of corporate in-fighting, Best Buy is battening down the hatches.
But since April, Bakkus had been battening on the good Archdeacon, his brother's substantial allowance.
The battening of this horde soon reduced Southern finances and credit to a grewsome skeleton.
Herein was a new opportunity for battening on the treasury which was exercised to its utmost.
Milton uses it transitively in Lycidas, 29: "Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night."
Sanitary revolutionists and incendiaries accuse us of gorging rottenness, and battening on corruption.