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PLUMP
chubby, embonpoint, plump
(adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; “a chubby child”; “pleasingly plump”
plump
(adverb) straight down especially heavily or abruptly; “the anchor fell plump into the sea”; “we dropped the rock plump into the water”
plump
(noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall
fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
(verb) make fat or plump; “We will plump out that poor starving child”
plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump
(verb) 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”
plummet, plump
(verb) drop sharply; “The stock market plummeted”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
Fat.
Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
Synonyms
• See also obese
Antonyms
• See also scrawny
Verb
plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
(intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
(transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
(transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
(intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
(transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
(transitive with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Etymology 2
Verb
plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
(intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
Adverb
plump
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Noun
plump (plural plumps)
The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
Etymology 3
Noun
plump (plural plumps)
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
Source: Wiktionary
Plump, a. [Compar. Plumper; superl. Plumpest.] Etym: [OE. plomp rude, clumsy; akin to D. plomp, G., Dan., & Sw. plump; probably of imitative origin. Cf. Plump, adv.]
Definition: Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew.
Plump, n.
Definition: A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. [Obs.] To visit islands and the plumps of men. Chapman.
Plump, v. i. Etym: [Cf. D. plompen, G. plumpen, Sw. plumpa, Dan. plumpe. See Plump, a.]
1. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
2. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once."Dulcissa plumps into a chair." Spectator.
3. To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
Plump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Plumping.]
1. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.plump up the pillows To plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles. Fuller.
2. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
3. To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
Plump, adv. Etym: [Cf. D. plomp, interj., G. plump, plumps. Cf. Plump, a. &v.]
Definition: Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly. "Fall plump." Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SPRINGBOARD
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
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