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Gradual :: Gradual (n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline..

Declined :: Declined (a.) Declinate.

Degenerate :: Degenerate (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low..

Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief..

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall..

Decline :: 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..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (v. i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence..

Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

Go :: Go (v. i.) To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.

Renounce :: Renounce (v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne..

De- :: De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc..

Decline :: 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..

Declinable :: Declinable (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech..

Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west..

Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

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

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation..

Declension :: Declension (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc..

Nol-pros :: Nol-pros (v. t.) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

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