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PLUMP OUT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make fat or plump

Example:

We will plump out that poor starving child

Synonyms:

fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "plump out" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

"Plump out" entails doing...:

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Depart suddenly

Example:

He plumped out of the house

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "plump out" is one way to...):

depart; quit; take leave (go away or leave)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

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