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Declination :: Declination (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4..

Dwindle :: Dwindle (n.) The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.

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..

Apophasis :: Apophasis (n.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.].

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

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation..

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..

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..

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

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

Set :: Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Declined :: Declined (a.) Declinate.

Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion..

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