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slumping


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  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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