EGAVE

slump

About 1.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To collapse heavily or helplessly.
    Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
  2. verb To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
    Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
  3. verb To slouch or droop.
  4. verb To lump; to throw together messily.
  5. verb To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
  6. verb To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.

Similar words

slouch fall off falloff drop-off slack sink depression economic crisis falling off slide down

Often followed by

in of and was is to test that into

Word family

slumped slumping slumps

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