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Slump

/slʌmp/

A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

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noun
  1. 1

    A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

  2. 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. 3

    A boggy place.

  4. 4

    The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

verb
  1. 1

    To collapse heavily or helplessly.

    "Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa."

  2. 2

    To decline or fall off in activity or performance.

    "Real estate prices slumped during the recession."

  3. 3

    To slouch or droop.

  4. 4

    To lump; to throw together messily.

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