Decline ¹

Definition: To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

Decline ²

Definition: 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.

Decline ³

Definition: To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.

Decline ⁴

Definition: To turn away; to shun; to refuse; the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

Decline ⁵

Definition: To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

Decline ⁶

Definition: To cause to decrease or diminish.

Decline ⁷

Definition: 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.

Decline ⁸

Definition: To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

Decline ⁹

Definition: To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

Decline ¹⁰

Definition: 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 ¹¹

Definition: That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

Decline ¹²

Definition: A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.

decline ¹³

Definition: a downward slope or bend

decline ¹⁴

Definition: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

decline ¹⁵

Definition: change toward something smaller or lower

decline ¹⁶

Definition: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

decline ¹⁷

Definition: grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

decline ¹⁸

Definition: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

decline ¹⁹

Definition: show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"

decline ²⁰

Definition: inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"

decline ²¹

Definition: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"

decline ²²

Definition: go down; "The roof declines here"

decline ²³

Definition: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"