To move downwards, to fall, to drop

• I declined for personal reasons.

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• His health continued to decline.

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To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain

To become weaker or worse

To cause to decrease or diminish

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw

To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fallrare

To inflect for case, number, gender, and the likerare

To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declensionrare

To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a nounrare

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 playrare

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