Usually means: Refused to accept or approve.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word declined:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. declined: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. declined: Collins English Dictionary
  3. declined: Vocabulary.com
  4. Declined, declined: Wordnik
  5. declined: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. declined: Wiktionary
  7. Declined, declined: Dictionary.com
  8. declined: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Declined: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Declined: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. declined: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Declined: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. declined: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. declined: Free Dictionary
  15. Declined: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. declined: Legal dictionary
  2. declined: Financial dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Declined: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decline)

noun:  Downward movement, fall.
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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