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slumping |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slump \Slump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slumped}; p. pr & vb n. {Slumping}.] [Scot. slump a dull noise produced by something falling into a hole, a marsh, a swamp.] To fall or sink suddenly through or in when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. --Barrow.
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