We have spotted DECLINE (7 Letters) a total of 4 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with DECLINE and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward
direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
despondency, etc.; to condescend. |
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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. |
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To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to
withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that
declines from sound morals. |
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To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of
accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle. |
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To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause
to bend, or fall. |
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To cause to decrease or diminish. |
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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. |
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To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of
grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective. |
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To run through from first to last; to repeat like a
schoolboy declining a noun. |
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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. |
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That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms
begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever. |
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A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical
faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die
of a decline. |
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Usage among publishers:
- USA Today: Oct 27, 2023
- LA Times: Aug 27, 2023
- Universal: Oct 7, 2022
- Thomas Joseph: Feb 11, 2022
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