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plump
verb(plump)
make fat or plump
Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out,
Examples:
We will plump out that poor starving child.
plump
verb(plump)
set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down,
plump
verb(plump)
drop sharply
Synonyms: plummet,
plump
verb(plump)
give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
Synonyms: go,
Examples:
I plumped for the losing candidates.
plump
adjective(plump)
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint,
Examples:
Pleasingly plump.
plump
adverb(plump)
straight down especially heavily or abruptly
Examples:
The anchor fell plump into the sea.
We dropped the rock plump into the water.
plump
noun(plump)
the sound of a sudden heavy fall

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