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