Slump

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  • intransitive verb. To fall or sink heavily; collapse.
  • intransitive verb. To droop, as in sitting or standing; slouch.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To decline suddenly; fall off.
  • intransitive verb. To perform poorly or inadequately.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To sink or settle, as into mud or slush.
  • intransitive verb. To slide down or spread out thickly, as mud or fresh concrete.
  • noun. The act or an instance of slumping.
  • noun. A drooping or slouching posture.
  • noun. A sudden falling off or decline, as in activity, prices, or business.
  • noun. An extended period of poor performance, especially in a sport or competitive activity.
  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fall or sink suddenly when walking on a surface, as on ice or frozen ground, not strong enough to support one; walk with sinking feet; sink, as in snow or mud.
  • Hence, to fail or fall through ignominiously: often with through; as, the plan slumped through.
  • noun. A gross amount; a block; lump: as, to buy or take things in the slump: also used attributively: as, a slump sum.
  • noun. A boggy place; soft, swampy ground; a marsh; a swamp.
  • noun. The noise made by anything falling into a hole or slump.
  • noun. The act of slumping through weak ice or any frozen surface, or into melting snow or slush.
  • noun. Hence, an ignominious coming to naught; complete failure; also, a sudden fall, as of prices: as, a slump in stock from 150 to 90.
  • To throw or bring into a mass; regard as a mass or as a whole; lump.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  • transitive verb. To lump; to throw into a mess.
  • noun. A boggy place.
  • noun. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
  • noun. A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; -- said of masses of earth or rock.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To collapse heavily or helplessly.
  • verb. To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
  • verb. To slouch or droop.
  • noun. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
  • noun. A boggy place.
  • noun. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. assume a drooping posture or carriage
  • noun. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
  • verb. go down in value
  • verb. fall or sink heavily
  • verb. fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
  • noun. a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
  • Word Usage
    "Yet, for all its simplicity, the insight that a slump is about an excess demand for money makes nonsense of the whole hangover theory."
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