plump

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Of course, we know they had real seeds and I'm guessing they weren't so plump and thin-skinned.

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Quick take

the sound of a sudden heavy fall

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of plump gathered in one view.

noun

the sound of a sudden heavy fall

verb

drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"

verb

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for plump.

noun

the sound of a sudden heavy fall

verb

drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"

verb

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"

See also: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk

verb

make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"

verb

give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates"

adjective

sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";

adverb

straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

Example sentences

Of course, we know they had real seeds and I'm guessing they weren't so plump and thin-skinned.

- and I scarcely need to do anything, which is just as well as by now I've become rather plump.

So a lot of people striving for this look will plump the money and put up with the inconvenience to make their look complete.

So basically they included a bunch of voluntary stuff to plump up the statistic?

I don't think RIM really cared one way or the other, because they were looking to plump up that meaningless statistic that the press bandies around.

A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half-submerged log.

I have been toying with moving to Android but this redesign is enough to keep me on board - if I'm going to have to learn a new OS I may as well plump for the one most similar to what I already know

I have seen more than one good friend and colleague been lured to NYC or SV/SF on the promise of plump returns, only to find out that cost of living lets them in worse conditions that what they had already achieved locally.

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Goebbels screaming for total war, and denouncing pacifists as the worst enemy right after the Jews... I also possess a 4th grade history book that was printed in 1942 I think, and it's so whiny and revisionistic.. basically the whole world is evil and brutish and the Germans try to make it all better and struggle for peace blah di blah, in such a plump fashion that it's hard to believe a lot of Germans really fell for all that.