Synonyms of the word

slump

• v. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
• v. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
• v. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
• v. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
• v. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
• n. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance,…
• n. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard…
• n. (Scotland, Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
• n. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
• n. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• n. (slang, by extension) A period when the person lives without sex when sex is expected or desired.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

collapse

• v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
• v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
• v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
• v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
• n. The act of collapsing.
• n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

correct

• adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
• adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
• v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
• v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

declension

• n. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective…
• n. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

descend

• v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
• v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
• v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
• v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
• v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

deterioration

• n. The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

droop

• v. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
• v. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
• v. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
• v. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
• v. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
• n. something which is limp or sagging;.
• n. a condition or posture of drooping.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

drop-off

• n. A sudden downward slope.
• n. A sudden decrease (such as in the level of sales).

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

falloff

• n. A reduction or decline.

flag

• n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
• n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
• n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or…
• n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
• n. (construction) Abbreviation of flagstone: a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or…
• n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
• n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically…
• n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise…
• n. (Britain) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
• n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally,…
• n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space…
• v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
• v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
• v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
• v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
• v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
• v. (computing) To signal (an event).
• v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
• v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
• v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
• v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
• v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
• v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
• n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
• n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
• n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
• n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
• v. To lay down flagstones.
• n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
• n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
• n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
• n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value.

founder

• n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
• n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
• n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
• n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
• v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
• v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
• v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
• v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

sag

• n. The state of sinking or bending; sagging.
• n. The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
• n. The difference height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for…
• v. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
• v. (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
• v. (figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to…
• v. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
• v. (transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
• v. (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
• n. Alternative form of saag.

sink

• v. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
• v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
• v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
• v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent…
• n. A basin used for holding water for washing.
• n. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
• n. (geology) A sinkhole.
• n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
• n. A heat sink.
• n. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
• n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
• n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink.
• n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network.

slack

• n. (uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
• n. (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
• n. (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
• n. (countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
• adj. Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
• adj. Weak; not holding fast.
• adj. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
• adj. Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
• adj. (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
• adv. Slackly.
• v. To slacken.
• v. (obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
• v. (followed by “off”) to procrastinate; to be lazy.
• v. (followed by “off”) to refuse to exert effort.
• v. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

slouch

• n. A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.
• n. Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
• n. Someone who is slow to act.
• n. (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
• v. (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture.
• v. (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

swag

• v. (intransitive and transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.
• v. (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
• v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
• n. (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
• n. A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
• n. (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
• n. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
• n. (thieves' cant, uncountable) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
• n. (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.
• n. (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and…
• n. (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
• n. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
• v. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
• v. To transport stolen goods.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

worsening

• v. present participle of worsen.
• n. A worse situation; an aggravation.