What is the meaning of plump?

noun

  • The sound of a sudden heavy fall.

verb

  • Drop sharply.
    • usage: "The stock market plummeted"
  • Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.
    • usage: "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"
  • Make fat or plump.
    • usage: "We will plump out that poor starving child"
  • Give support (to) or make a choice (of. one out of a group or number)
    • usage: "I plumped for the losing candidates"
    • synonyms: go

adjective

  • Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure.
    • usage: "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";

adverb

  • Straight down especially heavily or abruptly.
    • usage: "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
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