Definition of decline

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

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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..
Decline :: Decline (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..
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
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..
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..
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..
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..
Nol-pros :: Nol-pros (v. t.) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
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..
Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..
Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The state of being retrograde; decline.
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..
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.
Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline..
Declined :: Declined (a.) Declinate.
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective..
Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..
Wane :: Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
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