Crossword-Solution: DECLINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decline | v. i. | To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. |
| Decline | v. i. | 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. |
| Decline | v. i. | To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals. |
| Decline | v. i. | To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle. |
| Decline | v. t. | To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. |
| Decline | v. t. | To cause to decrease or diminish. |
| Decline | v. t. | 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. |
| Decline | v. t. | To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective. |
| Decline | v. t. | To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. |
| Decline | v. i. | 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. |
| Decline | v. i. | That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever. |
| Decline | v. i. | 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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Sentences with DECLINE (5)
This Eevning from the Sun’s decline arriv’d Who tells of som infernal Spirit seen Hitherward bent (who could have thought?) escap’d The barrs of Hell, on errand bad no doubt: Such where ye find, seise fast, and hither bring.
The rapid development of oil, coal, and other nontraditional industries over the past four years has helped to offset the decline in coffee prices--Colombia's major export.
Her death might have been brought on by biding in the night wind, you know, ma’am; for people used to say she’d go off in a decline: she used to cough a good deal in winter time.
Thy happy star ascendant brought us luck, O let it not decline! If thou wouldst rule This land, as now thou reignest, better sure To rule a peopled than a desert realm.
With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact.
Quotes with DECLINE (3)
The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obsession for faith, are themselves destroyers of the very thing which they imagine themselves called upon to try to protect. In fact, of course, they have no such call: and their capacity to protect something which is other than their imaginings makes for a comical situation.
We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.
The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power].
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1973–2022).