English Dictionary

batten

/ˈbætən/

verb

(intransitive) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding. / (intransitive, figuratively) To feed (on); to revel (in).

Her skills in playing the piano have batten over the years.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.

意味（2）

(intransitive, figuratively) To feed (on); to revel (in).

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.

意味（3）

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

The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.

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

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

意味（7）

(transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.