Associations to the word «Decline»
Noun
- Enrollment
- Fertility
- Recession
- Invitation
- Popularity
- Gdp
- Mortality
- Resurgence
- Deforestation
- Urbanization
- Unemployment
- Emigration
- Productivity
- Fragmentation
- Trend
- Extinction
- Depletion
- Inflation
- Aging
- Mughal
- Closure
- Attendance
- Incidence
- Advent
- Prevalence
- Habitat
- Viability
- Membership
- Revenue
- Occupancy
- Population
- Export
- Rate
- Percentage
- Expectancy
- Decade
- Logging
- Patronage
- Epidemic
- Shrinking
- Economy
- Heyday
- Drought
- Numbers
- Fishery
- Caliphate
- Whaling
- Demise
- Price
- Degradation
- Gibbon
- Sales
- Prosperity
- Fortune
- Growth
- Workforce
- Farming
- Industry
- Pollution
- Rating
- Shipbuilding
- Prestige
- Availability
- Zenith
- Boom
- Deficit
Adjective
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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. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
DECLINE, verb. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
DECLINE, verb. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
DECLINE, verb. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
DECLINE, verb. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
DECLINE, verb. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
DECLINE, verb. (transitive) (grammar) (usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
DECLINE, verb. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
DECLINE, verb. (American football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
Dictionary definition
DECLINE, noun. Change toward something smaller or lower.
DECLINE, noun. A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state.
DECLINE, noun. A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current.
DECLINE, noun. A downward slope or bend.
DECLINE, verb. Grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened".
DECLINE, verb. Refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality".
DECLINE, verb. Show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike".
DECLINE, verb. Grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned".
DECLINE, verb. Go down; "The roof declines here".
DECLINE, verb. Go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped".
DECLINE, verb. Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.