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decline
English
- 🔊 change toward something smaller or lower
- 🔊 a condition inferior to an earlier condition
- 🔊 a gradual decrease
- 🔊 a downward slope or bend
- 🔊 grow smaller“Interest in the project waned”
- 🔊 inflect for number, gender, case, etc.“in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives”
- 🔊 go down in value“the stock market corrected”
- 🔊 go down“The roof declines here”
- 🔊 grow worse“Conditions in the slum worsened”
- 🔊 show unwillingness towards“he declined to join the group on a hike”
- 🔊 refuse to accept“He refused my offer of hospitality”
Spanish
- 🔊 declinamiento decline
- 🔊 declinio decline
- 🔊 descenso decline
- 🔊 desmedro decline
- 🔊 merma decline
- 🔊 ocaso decline
- 🔊 declinar to decline
- 🔊 ruina decline, downfall
- 🔊 desmedrar to decline, to wane
- 🔊 decadencia decline, decay (deterioration of condition)
- 🔊 rechazar to decline, to deny (e.g. a credit card declining, an appeal being denied)