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 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 flag Afrikaans: weier, van die hand wys, Arabic flag Arabic: يَرْفُض Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: отказвам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: recusar Czech flag Czech: odmítnout German flag German: ablehnen
Danish flag Danish: afslå Greek flag Greek: αρνούμαι Spanish flag Spanish: rehusar, rechazar
Estonian flag Estonian: ära ütlema Farsi flag Farsi: رد کردن؛ خودداری کردن Finnish flag Finnish: kieltäytyä
French flag French: refuser Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְסָרֵב Hindi flag Hindi: मना करना
Croatian flag Croatian: odbiti Hungarian flag Hungarian: visszautasít Indonesian flag Indonesian: menolak
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hafna Italian flag Italian: declinare Japanese flag Japanese: 断わる
Korean flag Korean: 거절하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: atsisakyti Latvian flag Latvian: atteikties; noraidīt
Malay flag Malay: enggan Dutch flag Dutch: afwijzen Norwegian flag Norwegian: avslå, si nei til
Polish flag Polish: odmawiać Persian flag Persian: رد کردن؛ خودداری کردن Pashto flag Pashto: يوى خواته كږېدل ناګاره كو
Portuguese flag Portuguese: recusar Romanian flag Romanian: a refuza Russian flag Russian: отказываться
Slovak flag Slovak: odmietnuť Slovenian flag Slovenian: odkloniti Serbian flag Serbian: odbiti
Swedish flag Swedish: avböja, tacka nej Thai flag Thai: ปฏิเสธ Turkish flag Turkish: reddetmek, geriçevirmek
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 謝絕,拒絕 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: відмовляти(ся) Urdu flag Urdu: رسمی اخلاق کے ساتھ انکار
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: từ chối Chinese flag Chinese: 谢绝,拒绝

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