ALL meanings of decline
de·cline
D d - noun decline slope 1
- noun decline weakening 1
- intransitive verb decline health: worsen 1
- verb with object decline to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it. 0
- verb with object decline to express inability or reluctance to accept; refuse with courtesy: to decline an invitation; to decline an offer. 0
- verb with object decline to cause to slope or incline downward. 0
- noun decline Downward movement, fall. 0
- noun decline A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. 0
- noun decline A weakening. 0
- noun decline A reduction or diminution of activity. 0
- verb decline (Intransitive Verb) To move downwards, to fall, to drop. 0
- verb decline (Intransitive Verb) To become weaker or worse. 0
- verb decline (Transitive Verb) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. 0
- verb decline (Transitive Verb) To cause to decrease or diminish. 0
- verb decline To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw. 0
- verb decline (Transitive Verb) To refuse, forbear. 0
- verb decline (Transitive Verb) (grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender. 0
- verb decline (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. 0
- verb decline (American football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play. 0