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Meanings of plump in English

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

        Related terms
        Portuguese
        cevar
        Catalan
        saginar
        Spanish
        cebar

        Make fat or plump.

            cevar
            Portuguese
            cair
            Spanish
            caer en picado

            Drop sharply.

                  cair

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

                      Usage of plump in English
                      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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                      Common
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                      Common
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