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Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend..

Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

Non-pros :: Non-pros (v. t.) To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed..

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

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever..

Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) 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..

Declension :: Declension (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.

Set :: Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.

Vail :: Vail (n.) Submission; decline; descent.

Wane :: Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

Declined :: Declined (a.) Declinate.

Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.

Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.

State :: State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle..

Nol-pros :: Nol-pros (v. t.) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

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