slide down

1. 1.

   fall or sink heavily

   “He slumped onto the couch”

   “My spirits sank”

   Synonymsslumpsink

   Broadercollapse

Questions about slide down

What does slide down mean?

slide down means "fall or sink heavily".

What is another word for slide down?

Close synonyms include slump, sink. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slide down a common word?

slide down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.