plump

Plural: plumps

Noun

• the sound of a sudden heavy fall
• The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
• A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
• A group of geese flying close together.

Verb

Verb Forms: plumped, plumping, plumps

• To make or become full and rounded.
• drop sharply
• set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
• make fat or plump
  • "We will plump out that poor starving child"
• give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
  • "I plumped for the losing candidates"
• To grow plump; to swell out.
• To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
• To give a plumper (kind of vote).
• To give (a vote), as a plumper.
• To favor or decide in favor of.
• To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
• To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

Adjective Satellite

• sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
  • "pleasingly plump"

Adverb

• straight down especially heavily or abruptly
  • "the anchor fell plump into the sea"
  • "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

Adj

• Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
• Fat.
• Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.

Adv

• Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Adjective

• Having a full, rounded, and attractive form.

Examples

• a plump baby; plump cheeks
• a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
• He used a bonus tile to PLUMP up his score by playing a long word.
• Her cheeks have plumped.
• His PLUMP hand of tiles offered many options for expanding the board.
• to plump a stone into water
• to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water

Synonyms

chubby, embonpoint, fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, flump, go, plank, plonk, plop, plummet, plump down, plump out, plunk, plunk down, slump

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