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What (who) is Decline - definition
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Declines; Declined; Declining; Decliner; Decliners; Declinings; Decline (disambiguation); The Decline
Decline
·vt To cause to decrease or diminish.
II. Decline ·vt To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
III. Decline ·vt To bend downward; to bring down; to Depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
IV. Decline ·vi That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
V. Decline ·vt To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an Adjective.
VI. Decline ·vi A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, ·esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
VIII. Decline ·vi To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, ·etc.; to Condescend.
IX. Decline ·vi To turn or bend aside; to Deviate; to Stray; to Withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
X. Decline ·vt To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to Shun; to Avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
XI. Decline ·vi A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
decline
I
n.
1) to go into, suffer a decline
2) a gradual; sharp; steady; steep decline
3) a decline in (a decline in trade)
4) on the decline
II
v. (E) she declined to address the delegates
decline
I. v. n.
1.
Lean downward, incline, slope.
2.
Decay, sink, droop, languish, pine, fail, become feeble.
3.
Deteriorate, degenerate, be impaired.
4.
Decrease, lessen, diminish, wane, fall away.
II. v. a.
1.
Refuse, reject, avoid.
2.
(Gram.) Inflect, vary.
III. n.
1.
Deterioration, degeneracy, decay, diminution, falling off, declension, declination.
2.
Consumption, phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation.
Wikipedia
Decline
Decline may refer to:
- Decadence, involves a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, or skill over time
- "Decline" (song), 2017 song by Raye and Mr Eazi
- The Decline (EP), an EP by NOFX
- The Decline (band), Australian skate punk band from Perth
- The Decline (film), a 2020 Canadian thriller drama film
Examples of use of Decline
1. But relative decline need not be absolute decline.
2. Demographic decline causes anxiety because it is thought to go hand–in–hand with economic decline.
3. The decline is also linked to a 4 percent decline in diagnoses among heterosexuals.
4. Numbers returning in decline But the numbers returning home is still in decline.
5. The 8 percent decline in sales was bigger than the 4.5 percent decline that had been expected.