slump
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: slumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slumped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To collapse heavily or helplessly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
gloss: To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.
But in the week ending December 6, usage slumped from 72% of pre-pandemic numbers to just 56%, following revised advice that we should work from home again.
gloss: To slouch or droop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lump; to throw together messily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
gloss: To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
gloss: To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
pos: noun
gloss: A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
slang
examples: TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.
MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."
gloss: A period of poor performance.
pos: noun
examples: If she doesn't pull out of her slump, her job may be in jeopardy.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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[…]
gloss: A boggy place.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: The road was all slumps of holes.
It was neither seemly nor befitting that so great an occasion should have its solemnity defaced by leaping-poles or four hands crossed cradlewise to convey the bridal finery over “slump” or “quakkin'-qua[g]”!
gloss: The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
pos: noun
examples: a blackberry slump
Derived words: antislump
minislump
nonslumping
slumpage
slumpbuster
slump down
slumper
slumpflation
slumplike
slumpy
sophomore slump
Trump slump
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: depressió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 低潮状态
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 消沉
roman: xiāochén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 萎靡
lang: Finnish
word: rojahdus
lang: Finnish
word: romahdus
lang: Finnish
word: lysähdys
lang: Finnish
word: lama
lang: German
word: Zusammenbruch
lang: German
word: Zusammenfall
lang: German
word: Kollaps
lang: Italian
word: crollo
lang: Russian
word: депрессия
roman: depressija
lang: Russian
word: хандра
roman: xandra
lang: Spanish
word: bajón
lang: Spanish
word: desfallecimiento
lang: Spanish
word: caída
lang: Spanish
word: desplome