Sekirov Dictionary

plump

/plʌmp/

verb 7
adjective 3
noun 3
adverb 1
forms 7
phrases 3

verb7

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To grow plump; to swell out.
- Her cheeks have plumped.
To give a plumper (kind of vote).
To give (a vote), as a plumper.
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To favor or decide in favor of.
- 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. — 2014
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To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
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To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude Dulcissa plumps into a chair.

adjective3

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Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
- a plump baby; plump cheeks
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Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.
- A plump wine, with an abundance of plum and berry characteristics and soft, round tannins. Easy to drink; ready on release. — 1992
•
Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
- We are averse to plump queries, but we are going to ask our readers a plain, simple question Did you ever see a paper y'clept "The Yankee Blade?" — 1847

noun3

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A group of ducks or geese migrating, or sometimes other groups of birds.
- What Descartes called res cogitans is not a defined res but a network, a swarm, a cloud, much like a plump of geese flying south or ants foraging around their woodlands. — 2022
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The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
- As she beheld her, poor Mrs. Mack's heart fluttered up to her mouth, and then dropped with a dreadful plump, into the pit of her stomach. — 1863
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(no longer used) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears

adverb1

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Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
- I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman’s discretion? — 1851

forms

plumped · plumping · plumps · more plump · plumper · most plump · plumpest

Phrases with plump

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