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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plump .
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Examples
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Well, then, -- on my last visit this same Iván Sukhíkh comes to me in my room, and without uttering a word plumps down on his knees.
A Reckless Character And Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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Feeling obligated, she plumps on a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett, a name familiar to her from the honours list, and borrows it.
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Nourish-Mint Rehydrating Lip Glaze by Aveda plumps and shines with natural jojoba, pomegranate, and vanilla. $18 at Aveda.
Pandora Young: Beat Winter Skin Blahs With Moisturizing Makeup Pandora Young 2011
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Nourish-Mint Rehydrating Lip Glaze by Aveda plumps and shines with natural jojoba, pomegranate, and vanilla. $18 at Aveda.
Pandora Young: Beat Winter Skin Blahs With Moisturizing Makeup Pandora Young 2011
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Instead, he plumps for private accounts, omitting that they would incur substantial non-benefit costs.
Merton and Joan Bernstein: Feldstein's Folly Merton 2011
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Estrogen, important for maintaining vaginal health and lubrication, is the hormone that actually plumps up the cells in the vagina.
Staness Jonekos: How To Feel Sexy During Menopause Staness Jonekos 2011
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A slow roasting plumps and transforms pears into something velvety and ephemeral.
Baked Pears with Vanilla, Cinnamon and Grappa KITTY GREENWALD 2011
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The bath swells me up, plumps me like a grape, and I regain a little buoyancy.
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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Grigson's own family recipe uses 3 to 250g flour, as does Delia's version, but Chan plumps for 4.
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Heston Blumenthal, on his own quest for perfection, plumps for 100% pizza flour aka strong 00 – and makes a small batch of dough the day before, which, due to the longer fermentation time, has had time "to really develop flavour".
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