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Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.

Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.

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..

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

Declension :: Declension (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.

Vail :: Vail (n.) Submission; decline; descent.

Dishonor :: Dishonor (v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange..

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..

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

Autumn :: Autumn (n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

Forbear :: Forbear (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.

Detrect :: Detrect (v. t.) To refuse; to decline.

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

Decline :: 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..

Disclaim :: Disclaim (v. t.) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office..

Sheer :: Sheer (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..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

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..

Welk :: Welk (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane..

Decline :: 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..

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