decline
- Noun. Downward movement, fall.
- Noun. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- Noun. A weakening.
- Noun. A reduction or diminution of activity.
- Verb. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- Verb. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- Verb. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
- Verb. (transitive, grammar) To list the inflected forms of a noun, pronoun (and in some languages adjective) for case and number.
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