Definition of decline

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

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Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
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.
Ebb :: Ebb (v. i.) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.
Dwindle :: Dwindle (n.) The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.
Declension :: Declension (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Autumn :: Autumn (n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor..
Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
Inflect :: Inflect (v. t.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb..
Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump..
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals..
Welk :: Welk (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane..
Evening :: Evening (n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum..
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. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective..
Retrograde :: Retrograde (v. i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence..
Dishonor :: Dishonor (v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange..
Set :: Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
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