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Meanings of plump in anglès

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Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure;

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        portuguès
        cevar
        català
        saginar
        espanyol
        cebar

        Make fat or plump.

            saginar
            portuguès
            cair
            espanyol
            caer en picado

            Drop sharply.

                  cair

                  Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.

                      Usage of plump in anglès
                      1
                      Wights are payin' five times the goin' rate fer nice plump feeders.
                      Library of Souls
                      2
                      First, lower corporate tax rates will plump up our companies' bottom lines.
                      Reuters
                      3
                      Oats are not as plump as in Scotland; they fill too quickly.
                      The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
                      4
                      I love how plump his cheeks look when he's sleeping, I said.
                      She, myself & i
                      5
                      Father Mathew was a great man, plump and red in the face.
                      The Kiltartan History Book
                      6
                      Up and down the key-board of the instrument her plump hands galloped.
                      The Poor Little Rich Girl
                      7
                      Starting on day nine, the muscle cells also started to plump up.
                      Wired
                      8
                      Cooper was plump and pale, with long sideboards and an American accent.
                      The Guardian
                      9
                      Morrie would groan loudly when the weekly letter arrived, plump with questions.
                      The power of one
                      10
                      To say truth, so am I; and these fellows are delightfully plump.
                      Snowflakes and Sunbeams; Or, The Young Fur-traders: A Tale of th...
                      11
                      The St. Bernard led them plump against the wall of a cabin.
                      Man-Size
                      12
                      She took his wrinkled old hand in hers so plump and dimpled.
                      A Little Girl in Old Detroit
                      13
                      In the doorway stood a plump middle-aged woman, nodding her head rapidly.
                      Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
                      14
                      Only she did it in her own lady-like way, and not plump.
                      A Woman-Hater
                      15
                      Perhaps that was because she was plump, but Vanessa didn't think so.
                      A week in december
                      16
                      Legs still plump enough to toddle, lips just beginning to form words.
                      Blood harvest
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                      Translations for plump
                      Plump through the time
                      Plump across language varieties
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