slump
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 →
2) To slump also means to fall suddenly by a large amount, like prices or sales. tree →
3) A slump is a time when business, trade or a team does badly (money, sport). tree →
4) A slump is also a sudden fall in numbers or in how well someone is doing. tree →
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 →
- Grandad slumped in his armchair and fell asleep. tree →
- The boy slumped over his desk, too tired to finish. tree →
- Sales of ice cream slump in winter. tree →
- The team is in a slump and has lost five games in a row. tree →
- During the slump, many shops in town closed. tree →
- House prices slumped last year. tree →
- Sit up straight and don't slump at the table! tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.