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Decline Meaning in French |
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French
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déclin
, déchéance
, régression
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Decline
- (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 declining a noun.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
- (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
- (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
Synonyms:
Decay, Declension, Declination, Declivity, Descent, Diminution, Fall, Refuse, Reject, Wane, Worsen,
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• Declined
- (imp. & p. p.) of Decline
- (a.) Declinate.
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dockage, absurdity, tribune, beat, electrostatic, electrotype, swerve, office boy, dissociation, disseminating, method, pimps, mirth, laze, settee, bottom, disrepair, deadened, lay in, dead beat, deactivate, evaporated, elements, daybook, dawning, counteractive, camel, vomit, guarantee, boaring, imaginary, porphyry, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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