decline

decline is a 7-letter English word with 23 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
2. intransitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
4. intransitive verb. To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
5. transitive verb. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
6. transitive verb. To cause to decrease or diminish.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. transitive verb. To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
9. transitive verb. To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
10. intransitive verb. 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.
11. intransitive verb. That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
12. intransitive verb. A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
13. noun. a downward slope or bend

    Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall

14. noun. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

    Synonyms: decay

15. noun. change toward something smaller or lower

    Synonyms: diminution

16. noun. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

    Synonyms: declination

17. verb. grow worse

    "Conditions in the slum worsened"

    Synonyms: worsen

18. verb. grow smaller

    "Interest in the project waned"

    Synonyms: wane

19. verb. show unwillingness towards

    "he declined to join the group on a hike"

    Synonyms: refuse

20. verb. inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
21. verb. go down in value

    "the stock market corrected"

    "prices slumped"

    Synonyms: correct, slump

22. verb. go down

    "The roof declines here"

23. verb. refuse to accept

    "He refused my offer of hospitality"

    Synonyms: refuse, reject

Synonyms

declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall, decay, diminution, worsen, wane, refuse, correct, slump, reject

Common word forms

declined, decliner, declines, declining

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