battening 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- to cause to thrive by or as if by feeding; fatten.
battening 近义词
fasten securely
grow fat
更多battening例句
- 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.