decline

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

refuser

décliner

déclin

rejeter

réduction

repousser

diminuer

abaissement

décadence

baisser

baisse

diminution

côte

consomption

faiblir

abaisser

dépérir

régression

s’abaisser

déclinaison

recul

rapetisser

réduire

renier

renvoyer

se coucher

se pencher

sombrer

vaciller

versant

abréger

baisse des cours

décroissance

dégénération

relâcher

s’affaiblir

s’aggraver

s’amoindrir

se déprécier

s’incliner

diminution progressive

baisse subite

cordons décoratifs

declin

un peu après

dégéneration

s' amoindrir

adoucir

amoindrir

atténuer

Synonymes

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

Traductions

ablehnen

declinare

rifiutare

weigeren

rechazar

recusar

Abnahme

Verfall

refusar

declinar

afwijzen

afname

Rückgang

rejeitar

rehusar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɪˈklaɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: declinen

Hérité de ancien anglais: declīnian

In summary

From Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”, from de (“down”) + clīnō (“to bend, to 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.