What is the meaning of DECLINE. Phrases containing DECLINE
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v. t.
To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
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.
v. i.
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
n.
He who declines or rejects.
v. t.
Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
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.
v. i.
To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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.
v. i.
To decline; to fail; to sink.
n.
Submission; decline; descent.
v. i.
To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
n.
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
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.
v. i.
That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
v. i.
To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
v. i.
To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.
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v. i.
To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
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.
v. i.
A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
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