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