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declining

Verb

Noun

decline

Noun

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

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