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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



... acknowledge that the policy of England with respect to Europe should be policy of reserve, but proud reserve; and in answer to those statesmen—those mistaken statesmen who have intimated the decay of the power of England and the decline of its resources, I express here my confident conviction that there never was a moment in our history when the power of England was so great and her resources so ...
— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various
... Lady Mary," cried Sylla; "but you cannot half act a thing. When the exigencies of the stage require one to be embraced, one must admit of that ceremony. Surely if a girl has scruples about going through such a mere form, she had much better decline ...
— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart
... career, can never be known. He exerted his influence so secretly that contemporary historians took little note of him; and while, in view of his final record, some see in him the spirit that prompted Yoritomo's merciless extirpation of his own relatives, others decline to credit him with such far-seeing cruelty, and hold that his ultimately attempted usurpations were inspired solely by fortuitous opportunity which owed nothing to his contrivance. Wherever the truth may ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi
... spite of the lectures he would at times read him, was in a way proud of him as he grew older; he saw in him, moreover, one who would probably develop into a good man of business, and in whose hands the prospects of his house would not be likely to decline. John knew how to humour his father, and was at a comparatively early age admitted to as much of his confidence as it was in his nature to ...
— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler
... animal productions; for example, in the southern parts of the continent the Xanthorrea affords an inexhaustible supply of fragrant grubs, which an epicure would delight in, when once he has so far conquered his prejudices as to taste them; whilst in proceeding to the northward, these trees decline in health and growth, until about the parallel of Gantheaume Bay they totally disappear, and even a native finds himself cut off from his ordinary supplies of insects; the same circumstances taking place with regard to the roots and other kinds of ...
— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre


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