plump

Definitions

1. 1adverb

   Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.

2. 2noun

   A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.

3. 3adjective

   To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.

4. 4adjective

   To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

5. 5adjective

   To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.

6. 6transitive verb

   To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.

7. 7transitive verb

   To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.

8. 8transitive verb

   To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.

9. 9adjective & verb

   Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

10. 10noun

    the sound of a sudden heavy fall

11. 11verb

    give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

    "I plumped for the losing candidates"

    Synonyms

    go
12. 12verb

    make fat or plump

    "We will plump out that poor starving child"

    Synonyms

    fatfatten
13. 13verb

    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"

    Synonyms

    flumpplankplonkplopplunk
14. 14verb

    drop sharply

    "The stock market plummeted"

    Synonyms

    plummet
15. 15adjective

    sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

    "a chubby child"

    "pleasingly plump"

    Synonyms

    chubbyembonpoint
16. 16adverb

    straight down especially heavily or abruptly

    "the anchor fell plump into the sea"

    "we dropped the rock plump into the water"