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