decline

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

refuser

décliner

déclin

rejeter

réduction

repousser

diminuer

décadence

abaissement

baisse

baisser

diminution

côte

consomption

dépérir

faiblir

s’abaisser

régression

recul

déclinaison

abaisser

dégénération

baisse des cours

descente

décroissance

en pente

déprimer

s’affaiblir

diminution progressive

avertir

congédier

renvoyer

se déprécier

baisse subite

effondrement

faire une embardée

se coucher

se pencher

sombrer

s’incliner

vaciller

cordons décoratifs

declin

départ

un peu après

déchéance

décroître

détériorer

s’aggraver

chute

s' amoindrir

dégéneration

montée

pente

versant

abréger

adoucir

amoindrir

atténuer

ralentir

rapetisser

relâcher

réduire

s’amoindrir

dédaigner

mépriser

renier

Coupé comme

de‧cline

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɪˈklaɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Phrases

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

En eux, elle partage son découragement par son déclin physique et sa cécité progressive.