Associations to the word «Decline»
Noun
- Depression
- Mining
- Shortage
- Mid
- Consumption
- Manufacturing
- Vaccination
- Agriculture
- Due
- Century
- Prominence
- Cen
- Breakout
- Reelection
- Knighthood
- Dementia
- Deterioration
- Adjective
- Offer
- Testosterone
- Abandonment
- Reversal
- Decline
- Industrialization
- Rise
- Decrease
- Empire
- Estrogen
- Slowing
- Offset
- Candidacy
- Collapse
- Noun
- Decay
- Hegemony
- Governorship
- Civilization
- Onset
- Degeneration
- Disappearance
- Pesticide
- Emergence
- Yearly
- Comment
- Mls
- Byzantium
Adjective
Verb
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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
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.