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plump ¹  (plmp)

adj. plump·er, plump·est

1. Well-rounded and full in form; chubby. See Synonyms at fat.

2. Abundant; ample: a plump reward.

v. plumped, plump·ing, plumps

v.tr.

To make well-rounded or full in form: plumped up the pillows.

v.intr.

To become well-rounded, chubby, or full in form: The baby plumped out at three months.

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[Middle English, dull, probably from Middle Low German plomp, blunt, thick.]

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plumpish adj.

plumply adv.

plumpness n.

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plump ¹

Adjective

full or rounded: until puberty I was really quite plump

Verb

(often foll. by up, out)to make (something) fuller or rounded: she plumped up the cushions on the couch [Middle Dutch plomp blunt]

plumpness n

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plump ²

Verb

1. (often foll. by down, into)etc. to drop or sit suddenly and heavily: he plumped down on the seat

2. plump for to choose one from a selection

Noun

a heavy abrupt fall or the sound of this

Adverb

1. suddenly or heavily

2. directly: the plane landed plump in the middle of the field

3. in a blunt, direct, or decisive manner [probably imitative]

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Plump a knot; a tuft; a cluster; a number joined together in one mass—Johnson, 1755; a compact body of persons, animals, or things. See also bunch, clump, company, flock, etc.

Examples: plump of coleworts; of conjectures and great presumptions, 1553; of green corn, 1575; of deeps (the oceans), 1535; of ducks, 1854; of folk, 1489; of hazelnuts; of moorhens; of pains, 1568; of resolution, 1659; of seals, 1591; of spearmen, 1548; of trees, 1615; of orchard trees, 1868; of whales, 1834; of wild fowl, 1697; of wood (a copse), 1470; of yachts (at anchor), 1893.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	plump - the sound of a sudden heavy fall noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
Verb	1.	plump - drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted" plummet drop - to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"
	2.	plump - 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" plonk, plunk down, plump down, plunk, flump, plank, plop place down, put down, set down - cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here"
	3.	plump - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, flesh out, plump out, fill out alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
	4.	plump - give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" go choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
Adj.	1.	plump - sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump"; chubby, embonpoint fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
Adv.	1.	plump - straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

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plump ¹

adjective chubby, fat, stout, full, round, burly, obese, fleshy, beefy (informal) tubby, portly, buxom, dumpy, roly-poly, well-covered, rotund, podgy, corpulent, well-upholstered (informal) << OPPOSITE scrawny

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plump ²

verb flop, fall, drop, sink, dump, slump

plump for something or someone choose, favour, go for, back, support, opt for, side with, come down in favour of

Translations

plump [plʌmp] adj → rechoncho, rollizo

vt to plump sth (down) on → dejar caer algo en

plump for vt fus (col) (= choose); optar por

plump up vt → ahuecar

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plump [plʌmp] adj → rondelet(te) → dodu(e) → bien en chair

vt to plump sth (down) on → laisser tomber qch lourdement sur

plump for vt fus (inf) (= choose); se décider pour

plump up vt [+ cushion] → battre (pour lui redonner forme)

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plump [plʌmp] adj [person] → füllig, mollig

plump for plump (inf) vt fus → sich entscheiden für

plump up plump vt [+ cushion] → aufschütteln

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plump [plʌmp] adj → grassoccio/a

vt to plump sth (down) on → lasciar cadere qc di peso su

plump for vt fus (col) → decidersi per

plump up vt → sprimacciare