What (who) is decline - definition

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Decline

·vt To cause to decrease or diminish.

II. Decline ·vt To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

III. Decline ·vt To bend downward; to bring down; to Depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

IV. Decline ·vi That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

V. Decline ·vt To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an Adjective.

VI. Decline ·vi A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, ·esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.

VII. Decline ·vi To turn away; to Shun; to Refuse;

- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

VIII. Decline ·vi To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, ·etc.; to Condescend.

IX. Decline ·vi To turn or bend aside; to Deviate; to Stray; to Withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.

X. Decline ·vt 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.

XI. Decline ·vi 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.

XII. Decline ·vi 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

1) to go into, suffer a decline

2) a gradual; sharp; steady; steep decline

3) a decline in (a decline in trade)

4) on the decline

v. (E) she declined to address the delegates

decline

I. v. n.

Lean downward, incline, slope.

Decay, sink, droop, languish, pine, fail, become feeble.

Deteriorate, degenerate, be impaired.

Decrease, lessen, diminish, wane, fall away.

II. v. a.

Refuse, reject, avoid.

(Gram.) Inflect, vary.

III. n.

Deterioration, degeneracy, decay, diminution, falling off, declension, declination.

Consumption, phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation.

Wikipedia

Decline

Decline may refer to:

Decadence, involves a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, or skill over time
"Decline" (song), 2017 song by Raye and Mr Eazi
The Decline (EP), an EP by NOFX
The Decline (band), Australian skate punk band from Perth
The Decline (film), a 2020 Canadian thriller drama film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline

Pronunciation examples for decline

1. decline.

Brant Cortright _ Talks at Google

2. decline.

Johnson _ Talks at Google

3. Decline in wages, decline in unemployment,

Real Estate Investing _ Gino Blefari _ Talks at Google

4. starting to decline, or going to decline.

The Demand for Investigative Journalism _ Robin Fields, Andy Donohue + More _ Talks at Google

5. except decline.

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Examples of use of decline

1. But relative decline need not be absolute decline.

2. Demographic decline causes anxiety because it is thought to go hand–in–hand with economic decline.

3. The decline is also linked to a 4 percent decline in diagnoses among heterosexuals.

4. Numbers returning in decline But the numbers returning home is still in decline.

5. The 8 percent decline in sales was bigger than the 4.5 percent decline that had been expected.