plump
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Is plump a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of plump?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.Examples: "Her cheeks have plumped."intransitive
2. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.Examples: "to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water"; "to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles"; "Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]"transitive
3. (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).intransitive
4. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.transitive
5. (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of. [with for ‘something’]Examples: "A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble."intransitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.Examples: "to plump a stone into water"transitive
2. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.Examples: "September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude Dulcissa plumps into a chair."Synonyms: slumpintransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.Examples: "a plump of trees, fowls, or spears"; "To visit islands and the plumps of men."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary