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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Non-pros :: Non-pros (v. t.) To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed..
Declination :: Declination (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4..
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.
Go :: Go (v. i.) To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
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..
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..
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..
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall..
Renounce :: Renounce (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters..
Detrect :: Detrect (v. t.) To refuse; to decline.
Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The state of being retrograde; decline.
Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
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..
Welk :: Welk (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane..
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..
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..
Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant..
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..
Set :: Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
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