slumped

verb

past tense of slump
1
as in slouched

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as in skidded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slumped
  1. slouched
  2. skidded
  3. sagged
  4. waned
  5. drooped
  6. struggled
  7. slipped
  8. floundered
Verb
  • 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
  • Sam slouched on the horse and looked long out upon this scene with his hollow eyes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 July 2026
Definition of slouched
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  • Joey Bart followed by lining a ball that whizzed over third base and then skidded in foul territory to the base of a wall that juts perpendicular to the infield.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026
  • Miller’s car tore a hole in the front of the semi-truck’s trailer and skidded off the side of the road.
    — Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Definition of skidded
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  • Over the past month the company’s share price has sagged by 10% with most investment banks tipping a continuation of the decline.
    — Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Though the country’s exports have been churning along at an extraordinary pace — China shipped a record $412 billion of goods last month — domestic consumption has sagged, leading some analysts to warn of a potential deflationary spiral.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of sagged
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  • The remaining two group-stage matches were won, against Saudi Arabia (4-0) and Uruguay (1-0), but the overall feeling was still far from ideal, and the fans’ spirits waned.
    — Juan Claudio Matossian, Vanity Fair, 19 July 2026
  • Although the insurgency was crushed and support for Khalistan waned within Punjab, the Indian government continues to view separatist sentiment as a national security concern.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of waned
Verb
  • 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
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  • The 17 passengers and crew who lived told investigators everyone survived the landing, but many passengers struggled to locate life vests and the crew had a difficult time pulling out life rafts.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
  • Brayden Burries, Bucks While most of the vaunted crop of rookie guards from the NCAA ranks struggled, Burries was a glaring exception.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Definition of struggled
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  • Stocks gained ground Friday as oil prices slipped for the first time in a week, but Wall Street is still heading for a losing week.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
  • About 75% of deals that slipped from the second quarter should come back to IBM before year end, Krishna said.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 23 July 2026
Definition of slipped
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  • But Kenwood’s proposal for a boutique hotel, music venue and museum floundered in 2024.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026
  • But Klug wasn’t sure any individual Democrat could outrun the negative perception that pervades a state where the party has floundered of late.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Definition of floundered
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