Meaning

6 senses
  1. (intransitive)To collapse heavily or helplessly.

    Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.

    absinken, zusammensacken, zusammenbrechen

    оседа́тьosedátʹ, рухнутьruxnutʹ

    звалитисяzvalytysja, падатиpadaty

    fall or sink heavily

  2. (intransitive)To decline or fall off in activity or performance.

    Real estate prices slumped during the recession.

    fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly

  3. (intransitive)To slouch or droop.

  4. (transitive)To lump; to throw together messily.

  5. (intransitive)To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.

  6. (slang, transitive)To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

Examples

58 sentences
  1. The man slumped to the floor.

    deDer Mann sackte zusammen und fiel auf den Boden. — Tamy

  2. Tom slumped into a chair, exhausted.

    ruИзмождённый Том плюхнулся в кресло. — odexed

    deTom ließ sich erschöpft auf einen Stuhl fallen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. He seems to be in a slump.

  4. Tom has been in a slump lately.

  5. The stock market is in a prolonged slump.

    ruРынок акций находится в затяжном падении. — megaton

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to collapse heavily:
Русский
By meaning 1
to collapse heavily:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to collapse heavily:

Origin

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), No

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”).

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Forms

slumps, slumping, slumped, slumped
Base formslump · to slump
3rd person singularslumps
Present participleslumping
Past simpleslumped
Past participleslumped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyslump
he, she, itslumps

Past simpleLesson

all personsslumped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave slumped
he, she, ithas slumped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill slump

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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