Plump vs Replete - What's the difference?
plump | replete |
To grow ; to swell out.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
* Spectator
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .
* Fuller
To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
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.
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
* (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)
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Fat.
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
Abounding.
* 1730 , , "The Pheasant and the Lark":
* 1759 , , Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , ch. 12:
* 1843 , , Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. 44:
* 1916 , , Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers , "Seneca":
Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
* 1901 , , "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" in Under the Redwoods :
* 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 15:
To restore something that has been depleted.
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As verbs the difference between plump and replete
is that plump is to grow ; to swell out while replete is to restore something that has been depleted.As adjectives the difference between plump and replete
is that plump is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight while replete is abounding.As nouns the difference between plump and replete
is that plump is (obsolete) a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd while replete is a honeypot ant.As an adverb plump
is directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.plump
English
Verb
(en verb)- Her cheeks have plumped .
- Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
- to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
- to plump a stone into water
- "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)- The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
Synonyms
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* See alsoAdverb
Noun
(en noun)- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.
References
* ----replete
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway
- His subjects with delight obey:
- His tail was beauteous to behold,
- Replete with goodly eyes and gold.
- I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.
- "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."
- History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.
- And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals . . . .
- In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said . . . .
