Plump

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plÊŒmp/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒmp

Full definition of plump

Verb

1. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.Her cheeks have plumped.
2. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
• SpectatorDulcissa plumps into a chair.
3. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
• Fullerto plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
4. (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.to plump a stone into water
5. (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
6. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.

Adjective

1. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
   a plump baby;  plump cheeks
• Thomas Carew (1595-1640)The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
• 1956, Delano Ames, Crime out of Mind Chapter 23, He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
2. Fat.

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Adverb

1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.a plump of trees, fowls, or spearsTo visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.