plump
the sound of a sudden heavy fall
• Hypernyms:
noise
1. make fat or plump
- We will plump out that poor starving child
• Syn:
fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump out,
fatten out, fatten up
• Derivationally related forms:
fat (for: fat)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Entailment:
feed, give
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. 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
• Syn:
plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk,
plump down, plunk down
• Derivationally related forms:
plonk (for: plonk)
• Hypernyms:
set down, put down, place down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- I plumped for the losing candidates
• Syn:
go
• Hypernyms:
choose, take, select, pick out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
4. drop sharply
- The stock market plummeted
• Syn:
plummet
• Hypernyms:
drop
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- The stock market is going to plump
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure (Freq. 2)
- a chubby child
- pleasingly plump
• Syn:
chubby, embonpoint
• Similar to:
fat
• Derivationally related forms:
plumpness, chubbiness (for: chubby)
straight down especially heavily or abruptly
- the anchor fell plump into the sea
- we dropped the rock plump into the water
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
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