Definitions of decline [ɪˈklaɪn]

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Definition of 'decline'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) decline
to withhold or deny consent to do; refuse.

2.  decline
to refuse with courtesy.

3.  decline
to cause to slope or incline downward.

4.  decline
to recite or display the inflected forms of (a noun, pronoun, or adjective) in a fixed order.

5. (v.i.) decline
to express usu. courteous refusal.

6.  decline
to fail in strength, health, value, etc.; deteriorate.

7.  decline
to diminish:
to decline in popularity.

8.  decline
to slope or sink downward.

9.  decline
to draw toward the close, as the day.

10.  decline
(of a noun, pronoun, or adjective) to be characterized by declension.

11. (n.) decline
a downward slope; declivity.

12.  decline
a downward movement, as of prices or population:
a decline in the stock market.

13.  decline
a deterioration, as in strength, power, or value.

14.  decline
progress downward or toward the close.

15.  decline
the later years or last part:
the decline of life.

Etymology: (1275–1325; ME < OF decliner to inflect, turn aside, sink < L dēclīnāre to slope, incline)

Definition of 'decline'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) decline, diminution
change toward something smaller or lower

2. (noun) decline, declination
a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

3. (noun) decay, decline
a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

4. (verb) descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
a downward slope or bend

5. (verb) worsen, decline
grow worse
"Conditions in the slum worsened"

6. (verb) refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline
refuse to accept
"He refused my offer of hospitality"

7. (verb) refuse, decline
show unwillingness towards
"he declined to join the group on a hike"

8. (verb) decline, go down, wane
grow smaller
"Interest in the project waned"

9. (verb) decline
go down
"The roof declines here"

10. (verb) decline, slump, correct
go down in value
"the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"

11. (verb) decline
inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"

Definition of 'decline'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) decline
to become smaller or worse
as house prices decline; his declining health

2. decline
to politely say "no"
I declined the invitation.; I'm afraid I'll have to decline.

3. (noun) decline
a decrease in amount or quality
a decline in church attendance; a city in decline; the decline of the Roman empire

Definition of 'decline'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) decline
to bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend

2. (verb) decline
to tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines

3. (verb) decline
to turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals

4. (verb) decline
to turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle

5. (verb) decline
to bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall

6. (verb) decline
to cause to decrease or diminish

7. (verb) decline
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

8. (verb) decline
to inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective

9. (verb) decline
to run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun

10. (verb) decline
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

11. (verb) decline
that period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever

12. (verb) decline
a gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline

Translation of 'decline'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to say `no' to (an invitation etc); to refuse We declined his offer of a lift.
Afrikaans: weier, van die hand wys,	Arabic: يَرْفُض	Bulgarian: отказвам
Brazilian: recusar	Czech: odmítnout	German: ablehnen
Danish: afslå	Greek: αρνούμαι	Spanish: rehusar, rechazar
Estonian: ära ütlema	Farsi: رد کردن؛ خودداری کردن	Finnish: kieltäytyä
French: refuser	Hebrew: לְסָרֵב	Hindi: मना करना
Croatian: odbiti	Hungarian: visszautasít	Indonesian: menolak
Icelandic: hafna	Italian: declinare	Japanese: 断わる
Korean: 거절하다	Lithuanian: atsisakyti	Latvian: atteikties; noraidīt
Malay: enggan	Dutch: afwijzen	Norwegian: avslå, si nei til
Polish: odmawiać	Persian: رد کردن؛ خودداری کردن	Pashto: يوى خواته كږېدل ناګاره كو
Portuguese: recusar	Romanian: a refuza	Russian: отказываться
Slovak: odmietnuť	Slovenian: odkloniti	Serbian: odbiti
Swedish: avböja, tacka nej	Thai: ปฏิเสธ	Turkish: reddetmek, geriçevirmek
Taiwanese: 謝絕，拒絕	Ukrainian: відмовляти(ся)	Urdu: رسمی اخلاق کے ساتھ انکار
Vietnamese: từ chối	Chinese: 谢绝，拒绝
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