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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.
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.
verb
(past & past part. declined; pres. part. declining)
1.
Grow worse.  Synonym: worsen.
2.
Refuse to accept.  Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down.
3.
Show unwillingness towards.  Synonym: refuse.
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



... the empty sky, no sail upon the sea, Birds are yet on their nests perchance, but they sing no more to me. Past—vanished—faded away—all the joys that were. My youth died down in a swift decline when they married ...
— Last Poems • Laurence Hope
... the lives of men, are transitory, ever advancing from their beginning to their decline and ...
— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... but from the time of the disappearance of the buffalo, the power of the tribes was on the wane. The advance of the paleface and the curtailment of the supply of game, marked the beginning of the savage decline. The constant complaint of the tribes to General William Henry Harrison, the first military governor of Indiana, was the lack of both game ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce
... Tyope squatted down near the fire, facing the other Indian. It had turned cold, and both men held their hands up to the flame. The former glanced at the latter furtively from time to time, but neither uttered a word. The fire was beginning to decline; its light grew faint. At ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... a farming community in a new country, with fields continually reclaimed from the wilderness and added to culture, would increase in substance: if so, his annual stipend would increase. If the place should decline, he was to abate the tax of individuals, if desired by them personally, so far as he should judge their petition to that effect reasonable. If "strangers' money," or contributions from "outsiders," were not to go to make up his sixty ...
— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham


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