decline
IPA: dɪkɫˈaɪn
noun
- Downward movement, fall.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
verb
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (American football, Canadian 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.
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