slump
A heavy or helpless collapseA heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
» The man slumped to the floor.
Der Mann sackte zusammen und fiel auf den Boden.
Meaning
10 sensesA heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
Zusammenbruch, Zusammenfall, Kollaps
депрессияdepressija, хандраxandra
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
(broadly, slang)A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
A period of poor performance.
If she doesn't pull out of her slump, her job may be in jeopardy.
a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
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.
Ausbreitmaß
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.
(broadly)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.)
(UK, dialectal)A boggy place.
Morast
топьtopʹ
(Scotland)The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
Plumps
(Scotland)The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
a blackberry slump
Examples
58 sentencesThe man slumped to the floor.
deDer Mann sackte zusammen und fiel auf den Boden.
Tom slumped into a chair, exhausted.
ruИзмождённый Том плюхнулся в кресло.
deTom ließ sich erschöpft auf einen Stuhl fallen.
He seems to be in a slump.
Tom has been in a slump lately.
The stock market is in a prolonged slump.
ruРынок акций находится в затяжном падении.
Translations
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Origin
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), NoProbably 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”).
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Forms
plural: slumpsSynonyms
6 synonyms- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality:slackdrop-offfallofffalling off
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment:depressioneconomic crisis