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Slump [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To fall or sink suddenly into water or mud, when walking on a hard surface, as on ice or frozed ground, not strong enough to bear the person. [This legitimate word is in common and respectable use in New England, and its signification is so approriate that no onther word wil supply its place.]

Slump [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

2. A boggy place.

3. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

Slump [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Slump [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lump; to throw into a mess.

Slumped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Slump

Slumping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Slump

Slumpy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.