Translation for "to be fattening" to spanish

To be fattening

• estar engordando
• ser engorde

Translation examples

estar engordando

The butcher was fattening them for Christmas.
El carnicero las estaba engordando para Navidad.

“Fattening the lamb with flattery before the slaughter?”
–¿Engordando al cordero con cumplidos antes de llevarlo al matadero?

“Fattening the calf before you slaughter it, Duke?” “The golden calf?
—¿Estás engordando al becerro antes de sacrificarlo, Duque? —¿El becerro de oro?

“All of our heroes are fattening now as we approach the second year.”
Todos nuestros héroes están engordando al acercarse el segundo año de la guerra.

She felt a rush of white-hot rage at the vultures that were fattening on the defeated South.
Sintió un arrebato de rabia contra los buitres que estaban engordando a costa del derrotado Sur.

The realization that we were being fattened for the slaughter didn't stop us from going back for seconds."
Saber que nos estaban engordando para enviarnos al matadero no nos impedía volver por más comida».

Milton’s chin dipped, fattening his neck, and his eyebrows slanted in disbelief.
Milton hundió la barbilla, engordando el cuello, mientras enarcaba incrédulo las cejas.

"So the Navy's being strengthened, and the Spinward Reaches fattened up," Oxham said.
—Así que se está reforzando a la Armada y se están engordando las cuencas del Distrito Fronterizo —dijo Oxham.

They had bought the pig in the spring, as soon as they had saved enough pennies, and they had been fattening it all summer.
Habían comprado aquel cerdo en primavera, en cuanto hubieron ahorrado suficientes peniques, y lo habían estado engordando durante todo el verano.

They were playing pyramids, and the shark, a grinning specimen with ginger whiskers, was fattening his lamb for the kill.
Estaban jugando a la pirámide, y el tramposo, un espécimen muy sonriente con unas patillas pelirrojas, iba engordando a su corderito para el degüello.