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To move downwards, to fall, to drop

• I declined for personal reasons.

  Я отказался по личным причинам.

  Tatoeba · Eldad · CC BY 2.0 FR

• His health continued to decline.

  Его здоровье продолжало ухудшаться.

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

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To become weaker or worse

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To cause to decrease or diminish

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

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

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

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

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

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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 playредкое

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