decline

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Downward movement, fall.
2. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
3. A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
4. A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
5. The act of declining or refusing something.

Verb

1. To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
2. To become weaker or worse.
3. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
4. To cause to decrease or diminish.
5. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
6. To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
7. To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
8. To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
9. To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
10. 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 play.

Sinonieme

decrease

refuse

decay

fall

reject

diminish

wane

deteriorate

go down

turn down

ebb

drop

deny

reduce

diminution

downfall

decadence

descent

deterioration

slope

dismiss

reduction

abate

lessen

fade

slant

weaken

spurn

slump

worsen

inflect

conjugate

abatement

wither

disavow

descend

sink

ruin

weakening

waning

subside

repulse

incline

withhold

lower

become weak

disallow

shun

degeneration

waste away

fail

recession

recede

loss

cut

refute

relay

resend

set

dip

come down

going down

bend

declension

declination

downhill

downslope

declining

declivity

dwindle

ebb tide

pass up

repress

send back

repel

decadency

get worse

lessening

degenerate

rot

shrink

destruction

reduced

rebuff

flag

drive away

withdraw

disagree

withering

list

scorn

rebut

collapse

be defeated

droop

be disposed to

lurch

refrain

disapprove of

drop off

excuse oneself

attenuate

dump

ease

incline toward

look askance at

flop

move back

taper off

condemn

retrograde

flex

retreat

rebuke

degeneracy

clever

trend toward

be prone to

perish

emboss

persuade

end

🔚

degradation

depression

waste

abnegate

correct

chase

expel

crash

chase away

decadent

induce

tilt

tip

throw away

tool

discount

dispose

put down

doom

disclaim

languish

lean

final stage

sunset

discard

slums

disapprove

careen

sinking

atrophy

downturn

rebate

reckon

refusal

refutation

regress

regression

remission

repudiate

retire

retrench

retrogression

row

sag

scale down

shelve

shirk

shorten

slacken

slouch

slowdown

slow down

sluice

stave off

strike

submit

supposing

tally

tap

tend

throw out

throw up

thrust

toilet

🚽

trend

trim

trim down

turn away

twilight

verge

vomit

vote down

ward off

wasting

wave

👋

wear

wheel

🛞

while away

work out

yield

become exhausted

become worn

be degraded

be depressed

be reduced

come to a close

downward slope

freeze off

grow less

grow weak

heel over

make an excuse

eyes slanting downward

be under control

hanging down

downward tendency

gradual decrease

become emaciated

heavy fall

heed over

a little after

decorative cords

decrease in value

one’s declining fortunes

forefend

be decadent

be in recession

lose vitality

not accept

deminish

fail to accept

incline downward

slope downward

come to a nend

defervesce

ebb off

ebb out

not want

fall into decadence

make something curved

persuade or bend

rewduction

downward discount

abridge

abstain

abstain from

alight

amelioration

angle

ascent

attenuation

avert

bank

🏦

bear

🐻

bearish

beat back

become poor

bend down

bill

block

blunting

boil down

bow

🙇

brae

break

bring around

bring round

bully

burn down

calculate

cant

case

cave-in

celebrate

check

chit

cipher

compel

compute

contemn

count

🔢

crumble

curtail

cut back

cypher

debasement

debilitation

debility

debouch

decompose

deflation

deflect

delay

demise

denial

depreciation

depress

detente

deviate

die down

diffract

dilapidation

diminishing

disappearance

discharge

disdain

dislike

disorder

down

down-and-out

drive back

drop away

drop-off

ease off

ease up

ebbing

elect

emaciate

emaciation

enfeeblement

enumerate

erode

escarp

extenuate

fade away

failure

fall away

fall down

falloff

fall-off

falter

fend

fend off

fight off

figure

flat

fold

forbid

forfend

gainsay

get down

get off

go

hang up

heel

hillside

if

immorality

impairment

incurvate

infirmity

invoice

involution

keep

keep oneself

landing

leaving

lessened

let

let down

let up

lighten

lour

lowering

low tide

make smaller

marcel

master

mitigate

negate

negative

nevertheless

nominate

number

🔢

numerate

overreach

overthrow

parry

pass

perishing

pitch

plunge

posit

precipice

precipitation

preclude

prevail

prune

push

push back

push forward

put off

rack

rake

ram

🐏

Koppelteken as

de‧cline

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɪˈklaɪn/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”, from de (“down”) + clīnō (“I bend, I incline”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean). The senses arrived from two separate pathways in Middle English:
* The grammatical sense came from Old English declīnian, which was borrowed directly from the Latin etymon.
* All senses except the grammatical sense were derived from those of Old French decliner. Old French itself borrowed the verb from Latin.

Sinne

In them she shares her discouragement at her physical decline and progressive blindness .