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Entry 8 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Slump

/slŭmp/ · IPA /slʌmp/
01 n. The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  1. 1.
    The gross amount; the mass; the lump.[Scot.]
02 v. t. To lump; to throw into a mess.
  1. 1.
    To lump; to throw into a mess.
    “These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense.” — Sir W. Hamilton.
03 v. i. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong…
imp. & p. p. Slumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Slumping
  1. 1.
    To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
    “The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.” — Barrow.
  2. 2.
    To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; -- said of masses of earth or rock.
  3. 3.
    To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points.[Colloq.]
04 n. A boggy place.
  1. 1.
    A boggy place.[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  2. 2.
    The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.[Scot.]
  3. 3.
    A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc.[Colloq.]