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say it: sluhmp
slump is a verb and noun meaning "assume a drooping posture or carriage". It carries 6 recorded senses.
fall or sink heavily
“He slumped onto the couch”
“My spirits sank”
a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
“the team went into a slump”
“a gradual slack in output”
“a drop-off in attendance”
“a falloff in quality”
a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slump come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.