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declining
Verb
  • present participle of decline
Noun
  • decline
decline
Noun
  • Downward movement, fall.
  • A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
  • A weakening.
  • A reduction or diminution of activity.
Verb
  • To move downwards, to fall, to drop. intransitive
  • To become weaker or worse. intransitive
  • To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. transitive
  • To cause to decrease or diminish. transitive
  • To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
  • To refuse, forbear. transitive
  • To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender. transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns
  • To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. by extension
  • 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. American football, Canadian football