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1. Completely; used as an intensifier
   "I'm plumb tuckered out";
   - clean, plum
    
2. Conforming to the direction of a plumb line
    
3. Exactly
   "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle";
   - plum

1. Measure the depth of something
    
2. Weight with lead
    
3. Examine thoroughly and in great depth
    
4. Adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical

1. The metal bob of a plumb line
   - plumb bob, plummet

1. Exactly vertical
   "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"

Sounds like: pleural, plural

Derived forms: plumbing, plumbed, plumbs

See also: perpendicular, vertical

Type of: adjust, bob, burden, burthen, correct, explore, measure, quantify, quantitate, set, weight, weight down

Part of: perpendicular, plumb line

Encyclopedia: Plumb