SLUMPING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in sinking

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slumping

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verb

present participle of slump

as in slouching

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as in skidding

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Adjective

To experience a thicker, chewier noodle, order the tsukemen (dipping-style ramen) with a broth, as dense as gravy, fusing the essences of pork, chicken and fish.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Available in 5-piece, 8-piece, 15-piece and 30-piece order sizes, the nuggets come in mini-buckets along with Jollibee’s signature gravy or one of five dipping sauces.

— Mike Snider, USA Today, 5 July 2026

Definition of dipping

Verb

California shouldn’t be complacent, but the state isn’t slouching on preparation, or resolve.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Sporting a salt-and-pepper beard, Badio appeared frail during Monday’s proceedings, slouching to one side in his wheelchair.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of slouching

Verb

Jared Jones pitched six strong innings, Jake Mangum had an RBI double in the second inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the skidding Angels 1-0 on Friday night.

— Jared Jones, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
That chase ends with a semitruck pulling a tank of liquid nitrogen overturning and skidding into an active steel mill, spilling liquid nitrogen all over the street.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of skidding

Verb

This tension unfolds with riveting restraint in a story set in 1960s Nagaland — the eastern Indian state on the Burmese border — following the principled chief of a waning tribe, and the arrival of an American missionary.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Recent sampling of mosquitoes has not been finding the virus, a sign that the likelihood of new infections is waning, Pecora said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of waning

Verb

And in a succession of 11 guys (many sporting a striking smoky eye), the jackets were worn sliding down the body, half drooping off the torso, with one shoulder covered and the other exposed.

— Max Berlinger, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026
One of the villain’s henchmen was a small, shaggy blue creature with a long drooping snout and a sour expression that lived in a cigar box.

— Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of drooping

Verb

The film followed the trials of a struggling keyboardist who gets hold of a magical synthesizer, only to lose it and embark on a picaresque journey to get it back.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
In other words, Yemen and the Houthis may seem like yet another distant problem to Americans, many of whom are understandably fatigued by foreign interventions, and struggling with a spiraling cost of living.

— Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of struggling

Verb

Compared to the rapidly declining number of referrals from traditional search engines — which once numbered in the tens of millions — these AI clicks are a tiny drop in the bucket.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026
North Central President Abiódún Gòkè-Paríolá said he was thrilled by the enrollment numbers, especially as colleges across the country are grappling with a declining high school graduate population.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026

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