slumping in English

verb
1
sit, lean, or fall heavily and limply, especially with a bent back.
she slumped against the cushions
synonyms:sit heavilyflopflumpcollapsesinkfallplunk oneself
2
undergo a sudden severe or prolonged fall in price, value, or amount.
land prices slumped
synonyms:fall steeplyplummettumbledropgo downcrashnosedive
verb

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1. Declining investment rate, low PMI and slumping retail sales

2. If she were constitutionally capable of slumping, she would.

3. Considerable slumping can be seen in the right lateral moraine (photos Joachim Wolff).

4. Their stooping posture was of a person melting down, slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore.

5. Because of the slumping demand in Dubai's property market, the rents in the Burj Khalifa plummeted 40% some ten months after its opening.

6. The Arra was passed in 2009 and included a wide variety of funding and projects intended to spur the slumping economy during the Great Recession

7. A glass Craftsperson may work with hot glass (glassblowing and casting), warm glass (fusing and slumping) or cold glass (stained glass and leadlighting) to produce glassware and decorative items

8. — Mark Giordano broke a tie midway through the second period, Jacob Markstrom made 24 saves and the Calgary Flames beat the slumping Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Friday night.

9. In describing this migration, Bernard Stonehouse stated in his book North Pole, South Pole: “Hard ice is elastic but readily deformable; under pressure its hexagonal crystals align, then slide on each other to create the flowing and slumping we associate with glaciers.”

10. Colluvium, soil and debris that accumulate at the base of a slope by mass wasting or sheet erosion. It generally includes angular fragments, not sorted according to size, and may contain slabs of bedrock that dip back toward the slope, indicating both their place of origin and that slumping was the process of transportation.