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Decline   /dɪklˈaɪn/   Listen
Decline

noun
1.
Change toward something smaller or lower.  Synonym: diminution.
2.
A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state.  Synonym: declination.  Antonym: improvement.
3.
A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current.  Synonym: decay.
4.
A downward slope or bend.  Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall.  Antonym: ascent.
verb
(past & past part. declined; pres. part. declining)
1.
Grow worse.  Synonym: worsen.  Antonym: better.
2.
Refuse to accept.  Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down.  Antonym: accept.
3.
Show unwillingness towards.  Synonym: refuse.  Antonym: accept.
4.
Grow smaller.  Synonyms: go down, wane.
5.
Go down.
6.
Go down in value.  Synonyms: correct, slump.  "Prices slumped"
7.
Inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,.



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"Decline" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the table was home-made jam. It was a farm-house tea, and to Philip very quaint and charming in that Jacobean house. Athelny for some fantastic reason took it into his head to discourse upon Byzantine history; he had been reading the later volumes of the Decline and Fall; and, his forefinger dramatically extended, he poured into the astonished ears of the suitor scandalous stories about Theodora and Irene. He addressed himself directly to his guest with a torrent of rhodomontade; and the young man, reduced to ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... the grass returns! When golden days decline, the meadow burns; Yet autumn suns no hidden root have slain, The spring winds blow, and there is ...
— A Lute of Jade/Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China • L. Cranmer-Byng
... came to their hands. He being by King James (and as it is thought by the Viscount's Counsel) nominated to be sent Embassador to the Emperor of Russia, was by the said Viscount, whom he especially trusted, persuaded to decline the employment, as no better than an honourable Grave; Better lie some days in the Tower, than more months in a worse Prison; a Ship by Sea, and a barbarous cold Country by Land. You are now (Said he) in credit at home, and ...
— The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) • William Winstanley
... class? Are not the effects of over-work and long hours in the household as great as are those of the factory or the office? Is the birth-rate less among women who are engaged in the occupations unknown to women of the past? Or is the decline alike marked among those who are pursuing the ancient occupations but under different conditions?... If conditions surrounding their employment are such as to make it a "social question of the first importance" it is unfortunate ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... a way exists, the wise opine, If she quits her palace twice this year, To avert the flower of life's decline." ...
— Dramatic Romances • Robert Browning


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