Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to plump for sth
Participle: plumped for sth
Gerund: plumping for sth
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | plump for sth |
| you | plump for sth |
| he;she;it | plumps for sth |
| we | plump for sth |
| you | plump for sth |
| they | plump for sth |
Perfect
| I | have plumped for sth |
| you | have plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | has plumped for sth |
| we | have plumped for sth |
| you | have plumped for sth |
| they | have plumped for sth |
Past
| I | plumped for sth |
| you | plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | plumped for sth |
| we | plumped for sth |
| you | plumped for sth |
| they | plumped for sth |
Pluperfect
| I | had plumped for sth |
| you | had plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | had plumped for sth |
| we | had plumped for sth |
| you | had plumped for sth |
| they | had plumped for sth |
Future
| I | will plump for sth |
| you | will plump for sth |
| he;she;it | will plump for sth |
| we | will plump for sth |
| you | will plump for sth |
| they | will plump for sth |
Future Perfect
| I | will have plumped for sth |
| you | will have plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | will have plumped for sth |
| we | will have plumped for sth |
| you | will have plumped for sth |
| they | will have plumped for sth |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | plump for sth |
| you | plump for sth |
| he;she;it | plump for sth |
| we | plump for sth |
| you | plump for sth |
| they | plump for sth |
Perfect
| I | have plumped for sth |
| you | have plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | have plumped for sth |
| we | have plumped for sth |
| you | have plumped for sth |
| they | have plumped for sth |
Imperfect
| I | plumped for sth |
| you | plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | plumped for sth |
| we | plumped for sth |
| you | plumped for sth |
| they | plumped for sth |
Pluperfect
| I | had plumped for sth |
| you | had plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | had plumped for sth |
| we | had plumped for sth |
| you | had plumped for sth |
| they | had plumped for sth |
Conditional
Present
| I | would plump for sth |
| you | would plump for sth |
| he;she;it | would plump for sth |
| we | would plump for sth |
| you | would plump for sth |
| they | would plump for sth |
Perfect
| I | would have plumped for sth |
| you | would have plumped for sth |
| he;she;it | would have plumped for sth |
| we | would have plumped for sth |
| you | would have plumped for sth |
| they | would have plumped for sth |
Imperative
| you | plump for sth |
| we | Let's plump for sth |
| you | plump for sth |
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:]