Thesaurus: plump

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1. adv. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
2. n. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
3. a. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
4. a. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
5. a. To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
6. v. t. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
7. v. t. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
8. v. t. To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
9. a. & v. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
10. adj. sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
11. n. the sound of a sudden heavy fall
12. adv. straight down especially heavily or abruptly