1syllable
slumps
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Definitions ofslumps
1noun
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- 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.
- A boggy place.
- The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
1verb
- To collapse heavily or helplessly.
Example: "Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa."
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
Example: "Real estate prices slumped during the recession."
- To slouch or droop.
- To lump; to throw together messily.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
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