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slumped

slumped is the simple past and past participle of slump.

Meaning of slump

Verb

slump (third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped)

  1. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
    • Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
    Synonyms:
    plump
  2. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
    • Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
  3. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
    • “Isaac Sachs’s tragic flaw, ” analyzes Isaac Sachs, slumped in the bay window across from Luisa Rey two hours later, “is this. Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.”2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 131
  4. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
    • These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense.a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood...
  5. (intransitive) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
    • The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn]...
  6. (slang, transitive) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

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Phrases with slumped

Questions about slumped

What is slumped the simple past and past participle of?
Slumped is the simple past and past participle of slump.

Words near slumped in the dictionary

  1. slump
  2. slump down
  3. slumpage
  4. slumpbuster
  5. slumpbusters
  6. slumped
  7. slumped down
  8. slumper
  9. slumpers
  10. slumpflation
  11. slumpflationary

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