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Definition decline

Etymology

From Middle English declinen, borrowed from Old French decliner, from Latin declinare (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”), from de (“down”) + cl?n? (“I bend, I incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (English lean).

Noun

decline (countable and uncountable, plural declines)

  1. Downward movement, fall.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. A weakening.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
  4. A reduction or diminution of activity.
  5. The act of declining or refusing something.

Verb

decline (third-person singular simple present declines, present participle declining, simple past and past participle declined)

  1. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  2. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
  3. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
  4. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
  5. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
  6. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
  7. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
  8. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
  9. (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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EDENIC 11
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CINE 8
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CEE 6
CEL 7
DEE 4
DEL 5
DEN 5
DIE 4
DIN 5
EEL 4
ELD 5
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ICE 6
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LEE 4
LEI 4
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NEE 4
NIL 5
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DI 3
ED 3
EL 3
EN 3
ID 3
IN 3
LI 3
NE 3

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