- DECLINE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
decline, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn mean to turn away by not accepting, receiving, or considering decline often implies courteous refusal especially of offers or invitations
- DECLINE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
DECLINE definition: 1 to gradually become less, worse, or lower: 2 to refuse: 3 If a noun, pronoun, or adjective… Learn more
- DECLINE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
DECLINE definition: to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc ; refuse See examples of decline used in a sentence
- decline - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Decline, refuse, forbear, refrain: Decline is gentler than refuse and carries a connotation that the non-acceptance is an acceptable or anticipated option (decline an invitation) or the result of a considered decision (the judge declined to grant the motion)
- Decline - definition of decline by The Free Dictionary
12 a downward movement, as of prices or population: a decline in the stock market 13 a deterioration, as in strength, power, or value 14 progress downward or toward the close 15 the later years or last part: the decline of life
- decline - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
a gradual deterioration of the physical powers, as in later life or in disease: After his seventieth birthday he went into a decline progress downward or toward the close, as of the sun or the day
- decline - definition and meaning - Wordnik
To refuse; refuse or withhold consent to do, accept, or enter upon: as, to decline a contest; to decline an offer In grammar, to inflect, as a noun or an adjective; give the case-forms of a noun or an adjective in their order: as, dominus, domini, domino, dominum, domine
- DECLINE Synonyms: 444 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Some common synonyms of decline are refuse, reject, repudiate, and spurn While all these words mean "to turn away by not accepting, receiving, or considering," decline often implies courteous refusal especially of offers or invitations
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