SLUMPING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in sinking

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verb

present participle of slump

as in slouching

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as in skidding

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Adjective

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
Most locations feature a selection of about 15 ice cream flavors stored in a dipping cabinet, including classics and seasonal options like banana pudding, cookies and cream, key lime pie and red velvet.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026

Definition of dipping

Verb

Guests behave in much the same way, slouching on sofas after a day on the slopes, browsing the art books spread across tables in the main lounge, and helping themselves to something from the cake table.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
More a laundry tote, perhaps, than a proper hamper, but the canvas keeps this from any kind of slouching.

— Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 20 Apr. 2026

Definition of slouching

Verb

The 24-year-old Italian was mixing woeful drop shots with regulation misses (Sinner made 54 unforced errors in the first three sets) against Kecmanović, who was serving brilliantly and skidding the ball through the court.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 29 June 2026
While the artificial intelligence chipmaker is up about 12% in 2026, shares have been skidding in the past month, losing roughly 3%.

— Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 22 June 2026

Definition of skidding

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To fully stabilize the building, engineers may need to extend shoring 20 floors down to the foundation, and the sagging floors above.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 9 July 2026
Peptides and retinol help support collagen production, as well as smooth crow’s-feet and firm sagging skin.

— Daley Quinn, Glamour, 9 July 2026

Definition of sagging

Verb

Contributing Writer Keith Cooper has the tale here After Americans declared independence on July 4, 1776, a waning gibbous moon rose in the night sky.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 4 July 2026
At the least, that suggests the union’s dominance of education policy is waning.

— U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2026

Definition of waning

Verb

Trump taking the country to war with Iran, in part at the urging of his pal Bibi — without any sensible plan, debate, sanction from Congress or consideration as to how this might hurt Americans already struggling to make ends meet.

— Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
The rules were altered in 2004 at the urging of Algeria, which was struggling to field a competitive national team with wholly domestic players and saw dozens of better prospects from the diaspora living in France.

— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026

Definition of struggling

Verb

There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the declining population of Los Angeles County, which lost 54,000 people from July 2024 to July 2025, the biggest numeric population drop in the nation during that period, by far.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
For years now, Olathe Schools has talked about its problem of declining enrollment.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026

Definition of declining

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