Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slump
Participle: slumped
Gerund: slumping
Indicative
Present
| I | slump |
| you | slump |
| he;she;it | slumps |
| we | slump |
| you | slump |
| they | slump |
Perfect
| I | have slumped |
| you | have slumped |
| he;she;it | has slumped |
| we | have slumped |
| you | have slumped |
| they | have slumped |
Past
| I | slumped |
| you | slumped |
| he;she;it | slumped |
| we | slumped |
| you | slumped |
| they | slumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had slumped |
| you | had slumped |
| he;she;it | had slumped |
| we | had slumped |
| you | had slumped |
| they | had slumped |
Future
| I | will slump |
| you | will slump |
| he;she;it | will slump |
| we | will slump |
| you | will slump |
| they | will slump |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slumped |
| you | will have slumped |
| he;she;it | will have slumped |
| we | will have slumped |
| you | will have slumped |
| they | will have slumped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slump |
| you | slump |
| he;she;it | slump |
| we | slump |
| you | slump |
| they | slump |
Perfect
| I | have slumped |
| you | have slumped |
| he;she;it | have slumped |
| we | have slumped |
| you | have slumped |
| they | have slumped |
Imperfect
| I | slumped |
| you | slumped |
| he;she;it | slumped |
| we | slumped |
| you | slumped |
| they | slumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had slumped |
| you | had slumped |
| he;she;it | had slumped |
| we | had slumped |
| you | had slumped |
| they | had slumped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slump |
| you | would slump |
| he;she;it | would slump |
| we | would slump |
| you | would slump |
| they | would slump |
Perfect
| I | would have slumped |
| you | would have slumped |
| he;she;it | would have slumped |
| we | would have slumped |
| you | would have slumped |
| they | would have slumped |
Imperative
| you | slump |
| we | Let's slump |
| you | slump |
Verbs conjugated like 'slump'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'slump'
clump,
flump,
glump,
lump,
plump,
slum,
slurp,
stump,
sump,
alum,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”). See: Danish '
slumpe', Swedish '
slumpa', German, old spelling '
schlumpen', Dutch '
slompen'.
Sample Sentences
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Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
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“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]” [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
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Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
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The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week. [2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:]
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But in the week ending December 6, usage slumped from 72% of pre-pandemic numbers to just 56%, following revised advice that we should work from home again. [2021 December 29, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Problems galore in 2021...”, in RAIL, number 947, page 3:]
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“Isaac Sachs’s tragic flaw, ” analyzes Isaac Sachs, slumped in the bay window across from Luisa Rey two hours later, “is this. Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.” [2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 131:]
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These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense. [a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:]
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The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. [a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:]