Plump

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  • intransitive verb. To drop abruptly or heavily.
  • intransitive verb. To give full support or praise.
  • intransitive verb. To throw down or drop (something) abruptly or heavily.
  • noun. A heavy or abrupt fall or collision.
  • noun. The sound of a heavy fall or collision.
  • adjective. Blunt; direct.
  • adverb. With a heavy or abrupt drop.
  • adverb. undefined
  • adverb. With a full or sudden impact.
  • adverb. Directly.
  • adverb. Without qualification; bluntly.
  • adjective. Well-rounded and full in form; chubby. synonym: fat.
  • adjective. Abundant; ample.
  • intransitive verb. To make well-rounded or full in form.
  • intransitive verb. To become well-rounded, chubby, or full in form.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A knot; a cluster; a group; a clump; a number of persons, animals, or things closely united or standing together; a covey.
  • Full and well-rounded; hence,of a person, fleshy; fat; chubby: as, a plump figure; a plump habit of body; of things, filled out and distended; rounded: as, a plump seed.
  • Figuratively, round; fat; large; full.
  • Dry; hard.
  • To grow plump; enlarge to fullness; swell.
  • To make plump, full, or distended; extend to fullness; dilate; fatten.
  • At once, as with a sudden heavy fall; suddenly; heavily; without warning or preparation; very unexpectedly; downright; right.
  • Blunt; downright; unreserved; unqualified: as, a plump lie.
  • noun. A sudden heavy downfall of rain.
  • To plunge or fall like a heavy mass or lump of dead matter; fall suddenly.
  • To vote for a single candidate, when one has the right to vote for two or more
  • To cause to fall suddenly and heavily: as, to plump a stone into water
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock.
  • adjective. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat
  • adjective. Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright.
  • intransitive verb. To grow plump; to swell out.
  • intransitive verb. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
  • intransitive verb. To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
  • transitive verb. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
  • transitive verb. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
  • transitive verb. To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
  • adverb. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
  • verb. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
  • verb. To give a plumper.
  • verb. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
  • verb. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
  • verb. To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  • adjective. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
  • adjective. Fat.
  • adverb. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
  • noun. A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adverb. straight down especially heavily or abruptly
  • verb. drop sharply
  • noun. the sound of a sudden heavy fall
  • Word Usage
    "And running his eyes over those still standing on the bank, he called a plump little woman, the wife of a Llandaff tutor, who had been walking with Mrs. Hooper."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    scrawny  
    cross-reference
    blunt  direct  to plump  
    Equivalent
    fat  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alter  change  choose  drop  modify  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hump  Trump  bump  chump  clump  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abruptly  adipose  ample  at once  back  
    variant
    give  plumper  
    verb-form