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Definition of slumping : of Slump

Synonyms:

falling down, toppling, coming down, lowering, nose-diving, dropping, tumbling, falling, settling, plummeting, plunging, descending

fading, reverting, mouldering, atrophying, downgrading, regressing, degenerating, going downhill, ebbing, putrefying, sliding, getting worse, tergiversating, sinking, decaying, relapsing, falling apart, retrogressing, collapsing, withering, wilting, slipping, worsening, lapsing, deteriorating, declining, dilapidating, waning

Usage examples:

• The sight of me slumping would have been terribly bad for the poor child's health. - "The Brightener", C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson.
• Slumping back in his seat, he grinned maliciously at Scott. - "Feline Red", Robert Sampson.
• She fondled her son in the simulation of a passion that she did not feel- and when in his eagerness he tried vainly to tie her to a promise to help his father, she would only reply: " Kenyon, oh, my son, my beautiful son- you know I'd give my life for you-" The son looked into the dead, brassy eyes of his mother, saw her drooping mouth, with the brown lips that had not been stained that day; observed the slumping muscles of her over- massaged face, and felt with a shudder the caress of her fingers- and he knew in his heart that she was deceiving him. - "In the Heart of a Fool", William Allen White.