| plump | | |
| n. (event) | 1. plump | the sound of a sudden heavy fall. |
| ~ noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).; "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" |
| v. (motion) | 2. plummet, plump | drop sharply.; "The stock market plummeted" |
| ~ drop | to fall vertically.; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" |
| v. (contact) | 3. flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down | 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" |
| ~ place down, put down, set down | cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place.; "set down your bags here" |
| v. (consumption) | 4. fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out | make fat or plump.; "We will plump out that poor starving child" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ feed, give | give food to.; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. go, plump | give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number.; "I plumped for the losing candidates" |
| ~ choose, pick out, select, take | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
| adj. | 6. chubby, embonpoint, plump | sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure.; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump" |
| ~ fat | having an (over)abundance of flesh.; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
| adv. | 7. plump | straight down especially heavily or abruptly.; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
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