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slumps

noun

Meaning

  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.
  6. To collapse heavily or helplessly.
  7. To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
  8. To slouch or droop.
  9. To lump; to throw together messily.
  10. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
  11. (slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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