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Plump vs Plumping - What's the difference?

plump | plumping |

As verbs the difference between plump and plumping

is that plump is to grow ; to swell out while plumping is .

As nouns the difference between plump and plumping

is that plump is (obsolete) a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd while plumping is the act by which something is plumped.

As an adjective plump

is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.

As an adverb plump

is directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

plump

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To grow ; to swell out.
    • Her cheeks have plumped .
  • To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
  • * Spectator
    • Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
  • To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .
  • * Fuller
    • to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
  • To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
    • to plump a stone into water
  • To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  • To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  • (used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
    • "A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
  • * (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)
    • The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
  • *
  • Fat.

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    Adverb

  • Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
    • a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
    To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.

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    plumping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is plumped.
  • * 1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem
    • They shew the swellings of their mind, in the swellings and plumpings out of their apparel.