decline

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Konzepte

ablehnen

Verfall

Abnahme

Rückgang

ausschlagen

Niedergang

weigern

abweisen

verweigern

Verringerung

abschlagen

fallen

ausmerzen

abnehmen

deklinieren

versagen

Sinken

verfallen

zurücksenden

Degeneration

Gefälle

zurückgehen

zurückweisen

nachlassen

Verminderung

sinken

Fallen

Abnehmen

Fall

verschmähen

ausmeißeln

vertreiben

Abfall

ausfeilen

Dekadenz

meißeln

sich weigern

Sturz

sich brechen

Abstieg

sich erbrechen

schwinden

sich neigen

sich übergeben

Untergang

fortwerfen

fortjagen

ausweisen

austreiben

Ruin

Synonyme

decrease

refuse

decay

fall

reject

diminish

wane

deteriorate

go down

turn down

ebb

drop

deny

diminution

reduce

downfall

decadence

deterioration

descent

dismiss

slope

reduction

weaken

lessen

spurn

slump

fade

slant

abate

worsen

conjugate

abatement

inflect

disavow

waning

weakening

descend

wither

subside

sink

repulse

ruin

lower

waste away

incline

disallow

recession

fail

recede

degeneration

Übersetzungen

refuser

décliner

declinare

rifiutare

weigeren

rechazar

déclin

recusar

refusar

declinar

afwijzen

afname

rejeter

rejeitar

rehusar

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/dɪˈklaɪn/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: declinen

Geerbt von Altenglisch: declīnian

In summary

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.

Sätze

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

In ihnen teilt sie ihre Entmutigung über ihren physischen Niedergang und ihre fortschreitende Blindheit.