plump

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adj

1. fleshy, fattish, fat, portly, stout, round, rotund; well-rounded, filled out, well-fed, rounded, ample, Scot. fodgel; moonish, chubby, tubby, podgy, pudgy; paunchy, Inf. chunky, dumpy, squat, squatty, pursy; round-faced, moon-faced, roly-poly; well-proportioned, full-bodied, lusty, zaftig; top-heavy, bosomy, Inf. busty; hippy, beamy, Inf. broad in the beam, steatopygous.

v

2. fatten, fat, puff up, blow up, distend, fluff up, shake up.

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v

1. drop, fall, plummet, plunge, nosedive; sink, collapse, descend, fall headlong, pitch; thump, slap, clump, crump.

2. deposit, set down, plop, plunk, plank; swoop, swoop down, pounce, stoop, lunge, sprawl.

3.Often plump out

blurt, utter, let fall, spill; announce, declare, come out with, proclaim; divulge, give away, speak out, Sl. spill the beans, Sl. let the cat out of the bag.

n

4. fall, dive, dip, slip, plop, plunk; thump, crump, clump, clunk, thud; drop, collapse, descent, nosedive, crash dive, skydive, plunge.

adv

5. precipitously, unexpectedly, suddenly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, all at once; pop, bang, plunk, plop, bing, zap; surprisingly, without warning, out of the blue, like a thunderbolt, on short notice.

6. directly, bluntly, forthright, abruptly, point-blank; to the point, not beating around the bush, not pulling any punches, straight from the shoulder.

7. squarely, plumb, full, right, straight; smack, smack-dab, plunk, kerplunk; exactly, directly, precisely.

adj

8. blunt, forthright, abrupt, plain, downright; direct, straight, straightforward, forward, matter-of-fact.