English
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From Middle English declinen < Old French decliner < Latin declinare (“‘to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline’”) < de (“‘down’”) + *clinare (“‘to bend, incline’”).
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- Downward movement, fall.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- A weakening.
- A reduction or diminution of activity.
- Patrono:RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- Patrono:RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V
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downward movement, fall
sloping downward
weakening
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- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- My health declined in winter.
- (transitive) To refuse.
- On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.
- (transitive, grammar) To list the inflected forms of a noun, pronoun (and in some languages adjective) for case and number.
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move downwards
weaken
refuse
inflect
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- Decline in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Decline in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Decline at OneLook® Dictionary Search
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decline
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Decline (infinitive declinar)
- formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of declinar.
- first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of declinar.
- formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of declinar.
- third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of declinar.
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