What is "plump" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does plump mean in English? Meaning of plump definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "plump" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "plump": the sound of a sudden heavy fall

Noun

  • Meaning: the sound of a sudden heavy fall
  • Synonyms: plump
  • Hypernyms: noise
  • Meaning of "plump": drop sharply

    Verb

  • Meaning: drop sharply
  • Example: The stock market plummeted
  • Synonyms: plummet plump
  • Hypernyms: drop
  • Meaning of "plump": sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

    Adjective

  • Meaning: sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
  • Example: a chubby child pleasingly plump
  • Synonyms: chubby embonpoint plump
  • Similar: fat
  • Meaning of "plump": straight down especially heavily or abruptly

    Adverb

  • Meaning: straight down especially heavily or abruptly
  • Example: the anchor fell plump into the sea we dropped the rock plump into the water
  • Synonyms: plump
  • Meaning of "plump": set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

    Verb

  • Meaning: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
  • Example: He planked the money on the table He planked himself into the sofa
  • Synonyms: flump plank plonk plop plump plump down plunk plunk down
  • Hypernyms: place down put down set down
  • Meaning of "plump": make fat or plump

    Verb

  • Meaning: make fat or plump
  • Example: We will plump out that poor starving child
  • Synonyms: fat fatten fatten out fatten up fill out flesh out plump plump out
  • Hypernyms: alter change modify
  • Meaning of "plump": give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

    Verb

  • Meaning: give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
  • Example: I plumped for the losing candidates
  • Synonyms: go plump
  • Hypernyms: choose pick out select take
  • Adjective: (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out. Her cheeks have plumped.(intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once. Spectator Dulcissa plumps into a chair.Spectator Dulcissa plumps into a chair.(transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water Fuller to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miraclesFuller to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles(transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. to plump a stone into water(intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).(transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.(used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something. "A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out
  • Synonyms:

    fleshy, chunky, pudgy, full, stout, round, filled, beefy, burly, buxom, corpulent, obese, portly, rotund, tubby,

    Antonyms:

    skinny, incomplete, lean, thin, weak,

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