plump
(noun, adjective, verb, adverb)
adjective
1. sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
- pleasingly plump
Similar word(s): fat, chubby, embonpoint
Sentences with plump as an adjective:
- a plump baby; plump cheeks
adverb
1. straight down especially heavily or abruptly
- the anchor fell plump into the sea
- we dropped the rock plump into the water
noun
1. the sound of a sudden heavy fall
Definition categories: event, noise
Sentences with plump as a noun:
- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.
verb
1. drop sharply
Similar word(s): plummet
Definition categories: motion, drop
2. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
Similar word(s): flump, plank, plonk, plop, plunk
Definition categories: contact
3. make fat or plump
- We will plump out that poor starving child
Definition categories: consumption, alter, change, modify
4. give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- I plumped for the losing candidates
Similar word(s): go
Definition categories: cognition, choose, select, take
Sentences with plump as a verb:
- Her cheeks have plumped.
- to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
- to plump a stone into water
- "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