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    plump

    plump - Dictionary definition and meaning for word plump

    Definition
    (noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall Definition
    (verb) drop sharply
    Synonyms : plummet
    Example Sentence
    • The stock market plummeted
    Definition
    (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
    Synonyms : flump , plank , plonk , plop , plump down , plunk , plunk down
    Example Sentence
    • He planked the money on the table
    • He planked himself into the sofa
    Definition
    (verb) make fat or plump
    Example Sentence
    • We will plump out that poor starving child
    Definition
    (verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
    Synonyms : go
    Example Sentence
    • I plumped for the losing candidates
    Definition
    (adj) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
    Synonyms : chubby , embonpoint
    Example Sentence
    • a chubby child
    • pleasingly plump
    Definition
    (adv) straight down especially heavily or abruptly
    Example Sentence
    • the anchor fell plump into the sea
    • we dropped the rock plump into the water
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for plump

plump: imagine a PUMP and you are pumping air continuously to someone's mouth and he is getting filled by air and looking extremely 'FAT'.

When something get lumped it becomes FAT

plump means to JUMP in a plumb line


Word used in video below:
text: open up the shutters we'd plump up the
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