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Decline   /dɪklˈaɪn/   Listen
Decline

noun
1.
Change toward something smaller or lower.  Synonym: diminution.
2.
A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state.  Synonym: declination.  Antonym: improvement.
3.
A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current.  Synonym: decay.
4.
A downward slope or bend.  Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall.  Antonym: ascent.
verb
(past & past part. declined; pres. part. declining)
1.
Grow worse.  Synonym: worsen.  Antonym: better.
2.
Refuse to accept.  Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down.  Antonym: accept.
3.
Show unwillingness towards.  Synonym: refuse.  Antonym: accept.
4.
Grow smaller.  Synonyms: go down, wane.
5.
Go down.
6.
Go down in value.  Synonyms: correct, slump.  "Prices slumped"
7.
Inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,.



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"Decline" Quotes from Famous Books



... poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary form—passed through the usual three phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline. ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... at Marseilles and its depopulation, see Henri Martin, Histoire de France, vol. xv, especially document cited in appendix; also Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. xliii; also Rambaud. For the resort to witch doctors in Austria against pestilence, down to the end of the eighteenth century, see Biedermann, Deutschland im Achtzehnten Jahrhundert. For the resort ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... Prayer is the Christian's native air. It seems as if some Christians who are doomed to die of soul decline, might live if they would go back to their native air. Reader, do you need ...
— Broken Bread - from an Evangelist's Wallet • Thomas Champness
... my travels I am ofttimes asked if I desire my meals sent to my room, presupposing, as would be naturally inferred, the possibility of great awkwardness in my manner of eating; hence I invariably decline this offer of privacy, as there need be nothing in our manner of eating at all outre ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms
... pain to be compelled to decline your generous invitation to attend your annual meeting, but there is a deep pleasure in the thought that you remembered and desired me to be with you. Nowhere would I so gladly speak my little word for woman, her rights, her needs, her privileges delayed and debarred—yet blessed ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various


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