🐈 Full and round 🛏️ To make fuller ☑️ To choose clearly 💺 To drop heavily 🔊 A heavy noise ⬇️ Heavily or directly

to plump

8 3.8

To make someone or something fuller and rounder

verb
/plʌmp/

: rellenar

The pressure and serum help to plump skin, which minimizes the appearance of wrinkles and increases circulation.
plump the pillows
plump the skin
plump the lips

It's very pricey and it does plump a little bit.

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Examples

The pillows could stay, she decided, newly plumped and rearranged as they were.

Fiction book (1994)
Shall I plump the cushion on Mrs. Brown's chair?

Nanny McPhee (2005)
I can try as I might to plump it up, but nothing will cure me for real.
May decided that this was the moment to plump up the pillows.

Fiction book (1990)
This is a really good way to moisturize and plump those lips.
And this hydrates and plumps them ever so slightly.
She's attending to him, pulling back the sheets, plumping up the pillows.

Fiction book (1996)
"Shelby plumped the pillows behind her back and held out her arms for Laurie.

Fiction book (1995)
Joanne busied herself neatening her mother's bedcovers, plumping up pillows, remaining silent.

Fiction book (2001)
To make the pie crust flaky, you should plump it with a few extra minutes of kneading before rolling it out.

Synonyms

to fill out

vsto plump

37 2.8

To become or make something fuller by adding more

is narrower in method, also including fluffing and feeding approaches

to fatten

vsto plump

26 2.2

To make an animal gain weight and a sauce taste richer by giving more or richer food

also covers nonfeeding actions like fluffing or adding material

to fatten up

vsto plump

14 2.3

To give extra food so a person or animal gains weight

is broader, applying to feeding and physical reshaping methods

to shake up

vsto plump

11 3.5

To move something quickly so it becomes fluffier or looser

is broader, including adding substance or feeding to increase fullness

to puff up

vsto plump

10 4.4

To make something larger or more full, for example by filling it with air

differs by focusing on added mass or reshaping rather than inflation

to plump up

vsto plump

4 4.5

To make a pillow or cushion fuller by fluffing it

is broader, including feeding and adding as well as fluffing

to fat

vsto plump

2 7.7

To make someone gain body weight

is wider, also covering nonweight ways to make shapes fuller

to plump out

vsto plump

1 6.1

To make someone or something rounder and fuller

is more general, covering adding, fluffing, or feeding methods

to fatten out

vsto plump

1 4.9

To make an animal or person gain weight

is similar but also includes gentle surface rearrangement like fluffing

to enflesh

vsto plump

9.9

To make an animal or person fatter

is broader, including both tissue gain and external shaping actions

Antonyms

to flatten

86 2.6

Make something flat and smooth by pressing it

to deflate

24 3.1

To let air out of something so it becomes smaller or loses its shape

Phrasal Verbs

to plump up

4 4.5

To make a pillow or cushion fuller by fluffing it

to plump for

1 7.3

Choose someone or something after thinking about other options

to plump out

1 6.1

To make someone or something rounder and fuller

to plump down

1 6.0

To sit down suddenly in a heavy, relaxed way

to plump down

1 7.2

To put something or yourself down suddenly and heavily, often making a noise

How Full

to fatten

26 2.2

to plump

8 3.8

to fill

∞ 1.0

to pad

3 3.1

Surface Forms

plump infinitive

plumped past

plumped past participle

plumping present participle

plumps third person singular

Etymology

Plump as a verb grew from the same idea of roundness and fullness, like filling a cushion or feeding an animal until it is rounded. So to plump someone up is 'to make fuller or fatter'.