
1) Abate 2) Bow out 3) Declination 4) Declivity 5) Decrease 6) Degeneracy 7) Depression 8) Descent 9) Deterioration 10) Diminish 11) Diminution 12) Dip 13) Disobey 14) Disuse 15) Downslope 16) Dropoff 17) Ebb 18) Ebbing 19) Fade 20) Fall 21) Falloff 22) Go south 23) Idle 24) Languish 25) Lapse 26) Miss
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1) Courteously refuse 2) Decrease 3) Decrement 4) Diminution 5) Drop 6) French word used in English 7) Go down 8) Go down in value 9) Gradual deterioration 10) Gradual loss 11) Grow smaller 12) Grow worse 13) Just say no 14) Recession 15) Refuse to accept 16) Refuse to go into recession 17) Reject sentence after month
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- change toward something smaller or lower
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope
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Decline involves change over time, for example: Note: distinguish the noun decline from the adjective obsolete. Decline refers to the degenerating of something (compare obsolescence) whereas obsolete refers to the outdatedness of something or labels something as no longer in use. Decline represents the process of declining, a gradual sinking and w...
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• (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. • (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective. • (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy...
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[Verb] To become weaker or smaller. To decline an offer is to politely refuse.
Example: I will decline your kind offer unless you let me pay you for your time.
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1. 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. 'Their fathers lived in the decline of literature.' (Swift) ... 2. <medicine> That period o...
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Used as a specific term to mean Tuberculosis - May, of course, have the usual meaning too
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De·cline' intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Declined ;
present participle & verbal noun Declining .] [ Middle English
declinen to bend down, lower, sink, decline (a noun), French
décliner to decline, refuse, ...
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De·cline' transitive verb 1. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. « In melancholy deep, with head
declined .»
Thomson. « And now fair Phoebus gan
decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale.»
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De·cline' noun [ French déclin . See Decline , intransitive verb ] 1. 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
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[
n] - a condition inferior to an earlier condition 2. [n] - change toward something smaller or lower 3. [v] - go down 4. [v] - of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives 5. [v] - grow smaller
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get smaller
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noun change toward something smaller or lower
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declination noun a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
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A term used to describe the appearance of a tree showing signs of stress, lack of vigour or is dying. This could be due to disease, infection or environmental factors.
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A term used to describe the appearance of a tree showing signs of stress, lack of vigour or is dying. This could be due to disease, infection or environmental factors.
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A sloping underground opening for machine access from level to level or from surface; also called a ramp.
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a gradual decrease
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