slump
noun
- 1
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- 2
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.
- 3
A boggy place.
- 4
The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- 5
The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
verb
- 1
To collapse heavily or helplessly.
“Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.”
- 2
To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
“Real estate prices slumped during the recession.”
- 3
To slouch or droop.
- 4
To lump; to throw together messily.
- 5
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- 6
(slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
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