slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling off
(noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; âthe team went into a slumpâ; âa gradual slack in outputâ; âa drop-off in attendanceâ; âa falloff in qualityâ
depression, slump, economic crisis
(noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
slump, fall off, sink
(verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; âThe real estate market fell offâ
decline, slump, correct
(verb) go down in value; âthe stock market correctedâ; âprices slumpedâ
slump, slide down, sink
(verb) fall or sink heavily; âHe slumped onto the couchâ; âMy spirits sankâ
slump, slouch
(verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
slump (third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped)
(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
(intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
(intransitive) To slouch or droop.
(transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
(slang) (transitive) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
slump (plural slumps)
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
(slang, by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
(UK, dialect) A boggy place.
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• Plums, lumps, plums
Source: Wiktionary
Slump, n. Etym: [Cf. D. slomp a mass, heap, Dan. slump a quantity, and E. slump, v.t.]
Definition: The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]
Slump, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Lump; also Sw. slumpa to bargain for the lump.]
Definition: To lump; to throw into a mess. These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense. Sir W. Hamilton.
Slump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Slumping.] Etym: [Scot. slump a dull noise produced by something falling into a hole, a marsh, a swamp.]
Definition: To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. Barrow.
Slump, n.
1. A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
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