slump

Plural: slumps

Noun

• a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
  • "the team went into a slump"
• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
• A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
• A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
• 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.
• A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
• A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
• A boggy place.
• The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
• The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

Verb

Verb Forms: slumped, slumping, slumps

• To fall or sink suddenly and heavily.
• assume a drooping posture or carriage
• fall or sink heavily
  • "He slumped onto the couch"
• fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
• go down in value
  • "prices slumped"
• To collapse heavily or helplessly.
• To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
• To slouch or droop.
• 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.
• To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

Examples

• Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
• His score began to slump after his opponent played a triple-word bingo.
• Real estate prices slumped during the recession.

Synonyms

correct, decline, depression, drop-off, economic crisis, fall off, falling off, falloff, sink, slack, slide down, slouch, plump

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