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Plumped vs Plumed - What's the difference?

plumped | plumed |

As a verb plumped

is (plump).

As an adjective plumed is

having or decorated with a plume or plumes.

plumped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (plump)

    • 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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    plumed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
  • * 1854 , William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn
    • Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song,
    No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain,
    No plumed and plaided clans those hills among,
    Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?

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