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)
- To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
- Synonyms:
- plump
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
- 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
- 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...
- 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]...
- To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
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.
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