plump
verb/plʌmp/
/plʌmp/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they plump | /plʌmp/ /plʌmp/ |
| he / she / it plumps | /plʌmps/ /plʌmps/ |
| past simple plumped | /plʌmpt/ /plʌmpt/ |
| past participle plumped | /plʌmpt/ /plʌmpt/ |
| -ing form plumping | /ˈplʌmpɪŋ/ /ˈplʌmpɪŋ/ |
- plump something (up) to make something larger, softer and rounder
- He leaned forward while the nurse plumped up his pillows.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPlump is used with these nouns as the object:- cushion
- pillow
Word Originverb late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘blunt, forthright’): related to Middle Dutch plomp, Middle Low German plump, plomp ‘blunt, obtuse’. The sense has become appreciative, perhaps by association with plum.Definitions on the go
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