plumpness, n. portliness, stoutness, fatness, fleshiness, rotundity, Fr. embonpoint', chubbiness, tubbiness, pudginess, podginess, beefiness; paunchiness, dumpiness, squatness, pursiness, Inf. chunkiness; squattiness, stockiness, roly-poliness, blowziness, bloatedness, puffiness; bosominess, buxomness, topheaviness, Inf. bustiness; hippiness, beaminess, steatopygia.
plunder, v. 1. rob, despoil, Archaic, spoil, spoliate, pillage, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, maraud, devastate, depredate; ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle; raid, foray, forage, prey on or upon; lay waste, desolate, wreak havoc upon.
2. pirate, freeboot, buccaneer, privateer, filibuster; seize, capture, steal, thieve, carry off.
-n. 3. rapine, pillage, depredation, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin, plundering, plunderage; ravaging, harrying, marauding, sacking, Rare, sackage, laying waste, devastation, desolation; raid, inroad, Archaic, maraud, razzia, foray; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grab, rape; kidnapping, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy, commandeering.
4. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering, U.S. Inf. (usu. of cattle) rustling; robbery, theft, thievery, Law. larceny.
5. spoils, loot, pillage, booty, Archaic, boot, Archaic. prey, Scot. Obs. reif; stolen goods, Inf. steal, Sl. hot goods, Sl. boodle, Sl. the take, Sl. the goods, Sl. swag; prize, profits, pickings, gain, grab, Inf. haul.
plunge, v. 1. immerse, submerge, baptize; sink, put under, dip, douse, duck, dunk; inundate, drown, bury, engulf, overwhelm.
2. dive, plummet, go down, go to the bottom, descend; nosedive, fall, skydive, crash dive; plop, plunk, plump; drop, collapse, have the bottom fall out; pitch, jump, fall headlong, lurch; throw oneself, leap, spring, dart; swoop, swoop down, pounce, stoop, hurl, lunge.
3. rush, dash, hasten, hurry, scurry, hie, speed; hustle, scramble, scuttle, precipitate; bustle, race, run, tear.
-n. 4. dive, leap, fall, jump, Inf. header; dash, lunge, spring; plop, plunk, plump.
5. immersion, submergence, submersion, baptism; dip, dipping, duck, ducking, dunk; inundation, drowning, burial, engulfment.
6. drop, fall, decline, descent, decline and fall, collapse, denouement; dip, declivity, declination, downgrade.
plurality, n. 1. most, greatest or greater amount or number, greater or greatest percentage or part; more than anyone else or the others, lion's share, bulk, mass; decisive or winning number, enough to win.
2. majority, more than half, over fifty percent; preponderance, overwhelming number, nearly all.
3. many, a number, quite a few, several; quantity, lot, whole lot, bunch, whole bunch, Inf. oodles, Inf. slew, Inf. raft, Sl. scad; a thousand and one, scores, numbers, large or great number or amount, Inf. scil-lions, Inf. zillions.
4. multiplicity, multitudinousness, plenty, abundance, profusion; multitude, host, array, army, legion; herd, drove, bevy, flock, swarm; mass, crowd, throng, crush, horde, pack, Sl. mess; river, torrent, flood, deluge, ocean, sea, world, galaxy.
plus, prep. 1. and, increased by, with an increment of; and also, and [s.t.] to boot; added to, put together with, joined with, coupled with, in conjunction with.
-adj. 2. addition, adding, summation, summing, summational, totalling; All Math, positive, greater than zero, in the positive domain.