slump
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To collapse heavily or helplessly.
Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
Đồng nghĩa: 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.
- 4.
(transitive)To lump; to throw together messily.
- 5.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- 6.
(slang, transitive)To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- 2.
Period of poor performance.
If she doesn't pull out of her slump, her job may be in jeopardy.
- 3.
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.
- 4.
(geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- 5.
(broadly)(geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- 6.
(UK, dialectal)(UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- 7.
(Scotland)The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- 8.
(Scotland)The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- 9.
A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
a blackberry slump
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Probably of gmq origin: compare slumpe to stumble upon by chance, slumpe happen by chance, slumpa happen by chance, slumpa, slump. Compare also schlumpen, dialectal slompen.