plump

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to plump

Third person singular
plumps

Simple past
plumped

Past participle
plumped

Present participle
plumping

to plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)

  1. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
  2. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
  3. (intransitive) To give a plumper.
  4. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
  5. (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
  6. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.

[edit] Adjective

plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)

Positive
plump

Comparative
plumper or more plump

Superlative
plumpest or most plump

  1. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
  2. Fat.

[edit] Synonyms

  • Wikisaurus has an article on “fat” in the sense of “obese”.

[edit] Antonyms

  • Wikisaurus has an article on “thin” in the sense of “skinny”.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Adverb

plump

  1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

[edit] Dictionary notes

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

[edit] References

plump” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.


[edit] German

[edit] Adjective

plump (comparative plumper, superlative am plumpesten)

  1. crude, clumsy
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