Slump /(?)/
Slump
n.
- The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]
Slump
v. t.
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To lump; to throw into a mess.
These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
Slump
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Slumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Slumping
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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.
The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
- To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; -- said of masses of earth or rock.
- To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points. [Colloq.]
Slump
n.
- A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
- The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]
- A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc. [Colloq.]