Synonym: descent, fail, fall, hill, refuse, reject, run down, sink, slant, slope, weaken. Antonym: accept. Similar words: declare, cling, clinic, clinical, inclination, line, line up, outline. Meaning: [dɪ'klaɪn] 
n. 1. change toward something smaller or lower 2. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state 3. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current 4. a downward slope or bend. v. 1. grow worse 2. refuse to accept 3. show unwillingness towards 4. grow smaller 5. go down 6. go down in value 7. inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives".
n. 1. change toward something smaller or lower 2. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state 3. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current 4. a downward slope or bend. v. 1. grow worse 2. refuse to accept 3. show unwillingness towards 4. grow smaller 5. go down 6. go down in value 7. inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives". 
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271, Osaka's decline is evident in the local prefectural office, a grand stone building with grimy linoleum floor coverings.
272, There are two variations on the bench press - the incline bench press and the decline bench press.
273, It fights for its own hegemony in literature; wherever it triumphs, the older genres go into decline.
274, This trend reflects a steady decline in the teenage marriage rate since 1970.
275, Short Cuts captures the moment when the postwar economic boom began its decline into downward mobility.
276, The three year survey will establish the cause of the decline and decide whether a closed season is necessary.
277, And as the Saatchi shares peaked ahead of the 1987 stock market crash the seeds of its financial decline had already been sown.
278, The decline in earnings reflected the more difficult trading environment experienced by our downstream oil and chemicals businesses.
279, Ford Motor Co. is estimating production will decline 4 percent, while Chrysler Corp. plans to boost output 5 percent.
280, They get the blame for the decline of their homes.
281, Smoking is on a steady decline among both men and women - but men pack up at a faster rate than women.
282, Even if birthrates decline it will be necessary to generate millions more jobs, more schoolrooms, more acres of agriculture.
283, The decline of infant mortality makes it easier to accept the idea of smaller family size.
284, New York area stocks weathered the decline better than the broader market.
285, Its decisive decline is often said to have dated from the thirteenth century.
286, Like the decline of Rome, collapse takes place when there is softness and corruption within the structure of the family.
287, For many people, ageing is associated with a decline in emotional well-being.
288, Beyond electoral matters, there was growing belief that, for long-term sociological and historical reasons, Labour was in terminal decline.
289, This results, even in steady state, in a rapid decline in serum concentrations.
290, In regular session crude oil closed at $ 19. 95, a 31-cent decline from Friday.
291, The Raiders have been on the decline since their last Super Bowl championship,(www.Sentencedict.com) 13 years ago.
292, Organizational performance inevitably suffers, and when this decline is no longer deniable, blame is apportioned among a few unfortunate scapegoats.
293, Though unwelcome, this decline was predicted and planned for - and spending was therefore rightly under tight constraint in 1992.
294, More realistic estimates are based on the assumption that fertility will gradually decline to around replacement level.
295, Both, in fact, are at fault; both are helping to accelerate boxing's decline.
296, The decline in Britain's manufacturing base was indisputable, though the causes were open to scholarly debate.
297, These differentials give us important clues about the motivation and causes of the fertility decline.
298, This appears convincing since the decline in mortality rates antedated for the most part the advent of efficacious pills and surgical procedures.
299, There is no sign given of the possible collapse or steady decline in the fortunes of these economies.