flump

1. 1.

   fall heavily

   Synonymsflump down

   Broaderdrop
2. 2.

   set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

   “He planked the money on the table”

   “He planked himself into the sofa”

   Synonymsplankplonkplopplunkplump downplunk downplump

   Broaderset down

Other forms of flump

past tense

flumped·

present participle

flumping·

third person

flumps·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flump

What does flump mean?

flump means "fall heavily". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flump?

flump has 1 syllable: flump.

What is another word for flump?

Close synonyms include flump down, plank, plonk, plop, plunk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flump a common word?

flump is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.