Definition of decline

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of decline is as below...

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

Lern More About Decline

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..
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..
Retrograde :: Retrograde (v. i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence..
Set :: Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Autumn :: Autumn (n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor..
Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant..
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..
Forbear :: Forbear (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..
Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
Declination :: Declination (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle..
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective..
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..
Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
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..
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us