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