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# slump

«slump» in Mova's school dictionary: **to sit or fall down heavily because you are tired, ill or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (slump, slumps, slumped, slumping); noun (a slump, slumps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To slump is to sit or fall down heavily because you are tired, ill or sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#m1)

2) To slump also means to fall suddenly by a large amount, like prices or sales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#m2)

3) A slump is a time when business, trade or a team does badly (money, sport). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#m3)

4) A slump is also a sudden fall in numbers or in how well someone is doing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories «slumped» shows the reader that a person is exhausted, upset, ill or fainting (he slumped in his chair). In the news and money lessons a slump is a bad time for business, when people buy less and jobs may be lost. In sport a team in a slump keeps losing. Safety: if someone slumps and will not wake, call an adult or the emergency number. Phrases: slump into a chair, slumped over, a sales slump, in a slump.

### examples

- After the long race, Mia slumped onto the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x1)
- Grandad slumped in his armchair and fell asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x2)
- The boy slumped over his desk, too tired to finish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x3)
- Sales of ice cream slump in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x4)
- The team is in a slump and has lost five games in a row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x5)
- During the slump, many shops in town closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x6)
- House prices slumped last year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x7)
- Sit up straight and don't slump at the table! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/#x8)

### note

Past form: slumped. As a noun it is countable: a slump, two slumps. «Slump» (fall heavily) is close to «sag» and «collapse». In maths word problems «sales slumped by 40» means they went down by 40, so subtract.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slump» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slump/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.