Decline: alternatives and connections

A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

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To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

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To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

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To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

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To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

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Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate,…

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

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To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

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To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

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The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

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Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or…

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

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Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.

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Retrogression.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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To make sick; to disease.

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To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…

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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

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The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

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To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall;…

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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…

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To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

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To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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State; condition; position of affairs.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

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Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.

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To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

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Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

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The European bunting.

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of Ebb

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The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

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The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

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Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to di…

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The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

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Bright; glittering; fiery.

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The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18? below the horizon, occasioned by the illum…

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To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

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See 2d & 3d Wreak.

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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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Alt. of Declivous

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Alt. of Declivous

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Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, consid…

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Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, consid…

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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail;…

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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

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Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, consid…

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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation…

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

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To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

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To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

It can imply deterioration or a continuing downward trend more strongly than decrease.

To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

Decline is common for a downward trend or reduction over time.

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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To disprove or make void; to refute.

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To disprove or make void; to refute.

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