plump

  1. Verb.  (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive) To give a plumper.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  7. Adjective.  Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
  8. Adjective.  Fat.
  9. Adverb.  Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

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