Definition of plump

adjective (a)

• Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. (adjective)

  source: webster1913
• Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

noun (n)

• the sound of a sudden heavy fall (noun.event)

  source: wordnet30
• A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. (noun)

  source: webster1913

adverb (r)

• straight down especially heavily or abruptly (adv.all)

  Example:
  The anchor fell plump into the sea.
  We dropped the rock plump into the water.
  

  source: wordnet30
• Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly. (adverb)

  source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

• sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure (adj.all)

  Synonym: chubby, embonpoint
  

  Example:
  Pleasingly plump.
  

  source: wordnet30

verb (v)

• drop sharply (verb.motion)

  Synonym: plummet
  

  source: wordnet30
• set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise (verb.contact)

  Synonym: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down
  

  source: wordnet30
• make fat or plump (verb.consumption)

  Synonym: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out
  

  Example:
  We will plump out that poor starving child.
  

  source: wordnet30
• give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: go
  

  Example:
  I plumped for the losing candidates.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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