单词 | plumpen |
释义 | plumpen, v. rare.|ˈplʌmpən| [f. plump a.1 + -en5.] trans. To make plump, swell out. Also intr., to grow plump. Hence ˈplumpening vbl. n. the action or process of making or becoming plump.
1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. i. 13 As if it were likely that the Sun..had only been kindled to ripen their Medlars, and plumpen their Cabbage! 1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 121 They shall go plump into our book, line for line, and word for word, and serve to plumpen the two voluminous volumes. 1926Sectator 1 May 801/2 The plumpening of cherries on lichened wall. 1966P. V. Price France 307 The chickens..wander about the roads in the Bresse plain, plumpening visibly. |

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