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Slump
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To lump; to throw into a mess. These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense. Sir W. Hamilton.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.