The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SLUMP
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More clues leading to the result SLUMP
- Significant fall sees son with swelling
- Look defeated, seeing bad house prices? Only at first
- Collapse of square block
- Son put up with depression
- Shabby inner-city parking causes depression
- Decline last of meal found in drain
- Bad time for a batsman?
- Society facing mass depression
- Drop small piece of sugar
- Drop pair of slippers on baseball official
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The straight part
We know that "Decline" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case decline = slump.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SLUMP mean?
SLUMP noun- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A boggy place.
- The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- To slouch or droop.
- To lump; to throw together messily.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.