Definition of declines Declines
/dɪklajˈnz/ - [diklaynz] -
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Wiktionary 
- declines (Noun)
Plural of decline.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: declines |
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| decline - change toward something smaller or lower | ||
| diminution | ||
| decrement, decrease the act of decreasing or reducing something | ||
| decline in quality, deterioration, worsening, declension process of changing to an inferior state | ||
| detumescence diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | ||
| ebbing, wane, ebb the outward flow of the tide | ||
| erosion (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) | ||
| loss the act of losing someone or something; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock" | ||
| nosedive a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline; "the stock took a nosedive" | ||
| sinking spell a temporary decline in health or value | ||
| decline - a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state | ||
| declination | ||
| improvement, melioration the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property" | ||
| status, condition the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" | ||
| disuse, neglect the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" | ||
| twilight the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | ||
| decline - a downward slope or bend | ||
| descent, declivity, fall, declination, declension, downslope | ||
| acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, upgrade, rise an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" | ||
| incline, slope, side an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain" | ||
| downhill a ski race down a trail | ||
| decline - a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | ||
| decay | ||
| decrement, decrease the act of decreasing or reducing something | ||
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| decline - grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" | ||
| go down, wane | ||
| decrease, diminish, lessen, fall decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" | ||
| dip stain an object by immersing it in a liquid | ||
| wear on pass slowly (of time); "The day wore on" | ||
| drop give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" | ||
| decline - go down; "The roof declines here" | ||
| drop give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" | ||
| sink, dip descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" | ||
| decline - inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives" | ||
| inflect change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | ||
| decline - go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" | ||
| slump, correct | ||
| descend, come down, go down, fall move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" | ||
| decline - grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" | ||
| worsen | ||
| ameliorate, improve, meliorate, better get better; "The weather improved toward evening" | ||
| change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" | ||
| inflame become inflamed; get sore; "His throat inflamed" | ||
| sicken, come down get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" | ||
| degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" | ||
| impoverish, deprive make poor | ||
| fail get worse; "Her health is declining" | ||
| tumble do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully | ||
| drop away, fall away, drop off, slip fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test" | ||
| suffer feel pain or be in pain | ||
| lose, suffer fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" | ||
| retrogress, regress, retrograde get worse or fall back to a previous condition | ||
| turn down make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio" | ||
| decline - refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" | ||
| refuse, reject, pass up, turn down | ||
| accept, have, take tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about | ||
| dishonor, dishonour refuse to accept; "dishonor checks and drafts" | ||
| bounce hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" | ||
| decline - show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" | ||
| refuse | ||
| consent, go for, accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| react, respond undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react" | ||
| freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about | ||
| contract out refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use | ||
| regret express with regret; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" | ||
| repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement" | ||
| disobey refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired" | ||
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Wiktionary
- decline (Noun)
Downward movement, fall. - decline (Noun)
A sloping downward, e. g. of a hill or road. - decline (Noun)
A weakening. - decline (Noun)
A reduction or diminution of activity. - decline (Verb)
To move downwards, to fall, to drop. - decline (Verb)
To become weaker or worse. - decline (Verb)
To refuse, forbear. - decline (Verb)
To list the inflected forms of a noun, pronoun and in some languages adjective for case and number.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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. - decline (v. i.)
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 (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. - decline (v. i.)
To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle. - decline (v. t.)
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. - decline (v. t.)
To cause to decrease or diminish. - decline (v. t.)
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 (v. t.)
To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective. - decline (v. t.)
To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. - 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. - decline (v. i.)
That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever. - 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To not want to do what is being asked. -
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The act of abating or the state of being abated. -
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To not accept an offer or request.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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decline
de-klīn′, v.i. to bend or turn away from (a straight line); to deviate: to refuse: to bend down: to fail or decay: to stoop or condescend: to draw to an end.—v.t. to bend down: to turn away from: to refuse: to avoid: (gram.) to give the changes of a word in the oblique cases.—n. a falling off: deviation: decay: a gradual sinking of the bodily faculties, consumption.—adjs. Declin′able, having inflection for the oblique cases; Declī′nal, bending downward; Dec′linant (her.), having the tail hanging down—also Dec′livant.—ns. Declinā′tion, act of declining: a sloping or bending downward: deviation: (astron.) distance from the celestial equator; Dec′linātor, an instrument determining declination.—adj. Declin′atory, containing a declination or refusal—ns. Declin′ature, act of declining or refusing: (law) a plea declining the jurisdiction of a judge; Declinom′eter, an instrument for measuring the declination of the compass—i.e. the deviation of the magnetic needle from the true north. [Fr. décliner—L. de, down, away from, clināre, to bend. See Lean.]
