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Adjective plump has 1 sense
  1. buxom, chubby, embonpoint, plump, zaftig, zoftig - euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"
    Antonyms: thin, lean (indirect, via fat)
,Adverbial plump has 1 sense
  1. plump - straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
,Noun plump has 1 sense
  1. plump - the sound of a sudden heavy fall
    --1 is a kind of     noise
    Derived form: verb plump1
,Verb plump has 4 senses
  1. plummet, plump - drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
    --1 is one way to drop
    Derived form: noun plump1
    Sample sentence:
    The stock market is going to plump
  2. plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump - 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"
    --2 is one way to set down, put down, place down
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
  3. fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
    --3 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  4. plump, go - give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates"
    --4 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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