noun
- The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
verb
- Drop sharply.
- usage: "The stock market plummeted"
- synonyms: plummet
- 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"
- synonyms: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down
- 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";
- synonyms: chubby, embonpoint
adverb
- Straight down especially heavily or abruptly.
- usage: "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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