SLUMPED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

slumped

verb

past tense of slump

as in slouched

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The artist paired her boots with dark wash jeans that slouched above the shaft, a white top, jean jacket and brown shearling coat from Tod’s.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 22 July 2026
Jarvaise, wearing black shades, his shoulder-length hair combed back, sits slouched at the lower center of Taylor’s glowing, yellow canvas.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of slouched

Verb

The video shows a spray of debris flying as the truck struck the overpass, tipped over, and skidded on its side.

— Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
The bus, which was carrying passengers from Sétif to the Algerian capital, skidded in the locality of El Karma, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Algiers, before plunging into a deep ravine.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of skidded

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Flags sagged in the rain and translucent ponchos billowed in the wind, but the sound of bagpipes and a booming sousaphone kept the crowd moving.

— Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
The project is located not far from the former Pfizer headquarters on East 42nd Street, where structural columns buckled and floors sagged on July 7 during its conversion into roughly 1,600 apartments.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Definition of sagged

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But since then, the share price has more than halved as its fortunes have waned.

— April Roach,Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
And interest in nuclear power generation waned after several devastating incidents at power plants, most recently in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011.

— Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of waned

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The man raised his arms to a figure in the branches, a woman whose head drooped, hair loose, wet, falling forward across her face, her breasts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
The chickens stomp with swift feet like an Irish step dancer, keeping their tails erect and wings drooped.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of drooped

Verb

People half his age with serious mountain experience struggled and marvelled at him leading them to the top.

— Andy Mitten, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Whisenhunt had struggled in his last three starts leading up to Tuesday, allowing 14 earned runs and walking nine batters over his last 11 2/3 innings.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of struggled

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All of the missiles slipped past Ukrainian defenses, killing least 17 people and wounding dozens more.

— Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Just over a year after its acquisition, Hailey Bieber's brand contributed $160 million in quarterly sales of a total $479 million—as sales of elf's namesake brand slipped.

— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of slipped

Verb

For nearly four years, Villa have represented reliability, emphasised by what has come of direct rivals who have floundered under the weight of change.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Apple has also had commercial disappointments, like the Vision Pro headset, and floundered on its Siri assistant.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 25 July 2026

Definition of floundered

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