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Definition of Plump

1. Noun. The sound of a sudden heavy fall.

2. Verb. Drop sharply. "The stock market is going to plump "; "The stock market plummeted"

3. Adjective. Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure. "Pleasingly plump"

4. Adverb. Straight down especially heavily or abruptly. "We dropped the rock plump into the water"

5. Verb. Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise. "There plump some children in the rocking chair"; "He planked himself into the sofa"

6. Verb. Make fat or plump. "We will plump out that poor starving child"

7. Verb. Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number. "I plumped for the losing candidates"

Definition of Plump

1. a. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.

2. n. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.

3. v. i. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.

4. v. t. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.

5. adv. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

6. a. Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright.

Definition of Plump

1. well-rounded and full in form [adj PLUMPER, PLUMPEST] / to make plump [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: plump

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plump

plummeted plummeting plummets plummier plummiest plumming plummy plumose plumose plumosely

plumosite plumosities plumosity plumous plumous plump (current term) plumped plumpen plumpened plumpening

plumpens plumper plumpers plumpest plumpie plumpier plumpiest plumping plumpish plumply

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