Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to plump
Participle: plumped
Gerund: plumping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | plump |
| you | plump |
| he;she;it | plumps |
| we | plump |
| you | plump |
| they | plump |
Perfect
| I | have plumped |
| you | have plumped |
| he;she;it | has plumped |
| we | have plumped |
| you | have plumped |
| they | have plumped |
Past
| I | plumped |
| you | plumped |
| he;she;it | plumped |
| we | plumped |
| you | plumped |
| they | plumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had plumped |
| you | had plumped |
| he;she;it | had plumped |
| we | had plumped |
| you | had plumped |
| they | had plumped |
Future
| I | will plump |
| you | will plump |
| he;she;it | will plump |
| we | will plump |
| you | will plump |
| they | will plump |
Future Perfect
| I | will have plumped |
| you | will have plumped |
| he;she;it | will have plumped |
| we | will have plumped |
| you | will have plumped |
| they | will have plumped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | plump |
| you | plump |
| he;she;it | plump |
| we | plump |
| you | plump |
| they | plump |
Perfect
| I | have plumped |
| you | have plumped |
| he;she;it | have plumped |
| we | have plumped |
| you | have plumped |
| they | have plumped |
Imperfect
| I | plumped |
| you | plumped |
| he;she;it | plumped |
| we | plumped |
| you | plumped |
| they | plumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had plumped |
| you | had plumped |
| he;she;it | had plumped |
| we | had plumped |
| you | had plumped |
| they | had plumped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would plump |
| you | would plump |
| he;she;it | would plump |
| we | would plump |
| you | would plump |
| they | would plump |
Perfect
| I | would have plumped |
| you | would have plumped |
| he;she;it | would have plumped |
| we | would have plumped |
| you | would have plumped |
| they | would have plumped |
Imperative
| you | plump |
| we | Let's plump |
| you | plump |
Verbs conjugated like 'plump'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'plump'
clump,
flump,
glump,
lump,
plum,
plumb,
plume,
pump,
slump,
alum,
Additional Information
Etymology
From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).
Sample Sentences
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Her cheeks have plumped.
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to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
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to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
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Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […] [1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:]
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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. [2014, “Brazil in a nutshell”, in The Economist:]