plump in English dictionary

  • plump

    Meanings and definitions of "plump"

    • (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
    • (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
    • (intransitive) To give a plumper.
    • (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
    • (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
    • (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
    • Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
    • Fat.
    • Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
    • adjective
      Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
    • adjective
      Fat.
    • adjective
      (dated)
      Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
    • adverb
      Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To grow plump; to swell out.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To give a plumper (kind of vote).
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To give (a vote), as a plumper.
    • verb
      (used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
    • Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
    • with a clash (thud)
    • (onom) with a flop
    • adjective
      sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump"
    • adverb
      straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
    • noun
      the sound of a sudden heavy fall
    • verb
      drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
    • verb
      give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates"
    • verb
      make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
    • verb
      set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"

    Synonyms of "plump" in English dictionary

    fatten, pick out, buxom are the top synonyms of "plump" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of plump

    • plump ( comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)
    • plump ( third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
    • plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)
    • plump (plural plumps)
    • plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
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