The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

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意味（3）

(intransitive) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.

The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.

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意味（4）

(intransitive) To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.

Robber barons who battened on the poor

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意味（5）

(intransitive) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.

意味（6）

(transitive) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.

battening our flocks

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意味（7）

(transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.

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