| Noun | 1. | plump - the sound of a sudden heavy fallnoise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" | |
| Verb | 1. | plump - drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"drop - to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" | |
| 2. | plump - 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" | |
| 3. | plump - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | |
| 4. | plump - give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates"choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" | |
| Adj. | 1. | plump - euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"fat - having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" | |
| Adv. | 1. | plump - straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | |