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▸ noun: A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
▸ noun: A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
▸ noun: A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
▸ noun: The act of declining or refusing something.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
▸ verb: To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
▸ verb: (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
▸ verb: (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
▸ verb: (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
▸ verb: (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
▸ verb: (American football, Canadian football) 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.
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