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State :: State (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..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east..

Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump..

Sink :: Sink (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..

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..

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 (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate..

Decay :: Decay (v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay..

Declined :: Declined (imp. & p. p.) of Declin.

Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath..

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

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

Revival :: Revival (n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest..

Evening :: Evening (n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum..

Declinate :: Declinate (a.) Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.

Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

Renounce :: Renounce (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters..

Decay :: Decay (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever..

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