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decline
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to turn aside, deviate," from Old French decliner "to sink, decline, degenerate, turn aside," from Latin declinare "to lower, avoid, deviate, to bend from, inflect," from de- "from" (see de- ) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n- , suffixed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decline \De*cline"\, n. [F. d['e]clin. See 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; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a decline/drop in standards ▪ There has been a general decline in standards of literacy among undergraduates. a declining industry (= one that is doing badly ) ▪ Coal and steel are declining industries in Britain. ...
Usage examples of decline.
The tribal mode probably originated in the unstable social conditions that resulted from the protracted decline of the Abbasid Caliphate and the subsequent cycles of invasion and devastation.
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing, but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it.
Gerry would tell the Congress that knowing Adams as he did, he was sure Adams would not decline the duty.
But with Congress not due to reconvene for another two months and the President still declining to say whether he would serve again, Adams saw no need for hurry and remained where he was.
But when Dana declined because of poor health, Adams named Elbridge Gerry.
Afterward, when Patrick Henry declined for reasons of health, Adams chose another southerner, the Federalist governor of North Carolina, William Davie.
To replace him Adams first turned to his old friend John Jay, but when Jay declined, he chose John Marshall.
Bin Ladin declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative.
Dallas might not be the right city, after all, but it was more likely that Faith had declined to be listed in the city directory.
He declined to press charges, and since his name was not yet on the Watch List, which would have alerted Customs and INS agents to his entry, he escaped scrutiny.
On the twenty-fourth, at a meeting in Amman to commemorate the first anniversary of the ACC, Saddam gave a long speech in which he said that as a result of the decline of the USSR, the Arab world needed to band together to oppose American and Israeli machinations.
Chippingham had invited everyone who had been at the task force meeting, including Sloane, but the anchorman declined, deciding to go home to Larchmont with his FBI escort, Otis Havelock.
In the defence of national freedom, two hundred thousand of these barbarians had once appeared in the field, alarmed the declining age of Augustus, and exercised the vigilant prudence of Tiberius at the head of the collected force of the empire.
Africa by the voice of the senate and the approbation of Alexander, he appears prudently to have declined the command of armies and the government of provinces.
Diarrhea usually attends this complaint, together with difficult breathing, loss of strength, gradual decline, fever, diminution of vital forces, and finally death.