slump
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slump
- /slʌmp/
Rhymes with -ʌmp
Where it comes from
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).
verb slumps · slumping · slumped
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To collapse heavily or helplessly.
Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
Similar: plump
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance. Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
- To slouch or droop. “Isaac Sachs’s tragic flaw, ” analyzes Isaac Sachs, slumped in the bay window across from Luisa Rey two hours later, “is this. Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.”
- To lump; to throw together messily. These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
- To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun slumps
- 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. TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months. MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."
- A period of poor performance. If she doesn't pull out of her slump, her job may be in jeopardy.
- 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.) The biggest slump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing[…]
- A boggy place. The road was all slumps of holes.
- 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. a blackberry slump
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: slouch, fall off, falloff, drop-off, slack, sink, depression, economic crisis, falling off, slide down, sag, tumble, collapse, shrinking, fall, falling
Translations
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verb to collapse heavily
| Español | desfallecer, desplomarse |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 癱 /瘫 tān |
| Português | despencar |
| Français | s'affaler, s'effondrer |
| Deutsch | absinken, zusammensacken, zusammenbrechen |
| Italiano | crollare |
| Русский | оседа́ть osedátʹ, рухнуть ruxnutʹ |
verb to decline, to reduce, to fall off in performance or activity
| 中文 | 下跌 xiàdiē |
|---|
noun helpless collapse
| Español | bajón, desfallecimiento, caída, desplome |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 低潮状态, 消沉 xiāochén, 萎靡 |
| Deutsch | Zusammenbruch, Zusammenfall, Kollaps |
| Italiano | crollo |
| Русский | депрессия depressija, хандра xandra |
noun measure of the fluidity of fresh concrete
| Deutsch | Ausbreitmaß |
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noun noise made by anything falling into a soft, miry place
| Deutsch | Plumps |
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title = {slump},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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