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Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points..

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..

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective..

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..

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..

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..

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

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle..

Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant..

Inflect :: Inflect (v. t.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb..

Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The state of being retrograde; decline.

Deny :: Deny (v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.

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

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..

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..

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.

Wane :: Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

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..

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

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

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