Decline

Definition: Decline

Decline

Noun

1. Change toward something smaller or lower.

2. A condition inferior to an earlier condition.

3. A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current.

4. A downward slope.

Verb

1. Grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened".

2. Refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality".

3. Show unwillingness towards.

4. Grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned".

5. Go down.

6. Of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Decline

Adversity

Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

Age

Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.

Be aged; Adjective: grow old, get old; Adjective: age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.

Descent

Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse,Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency; falling off; Verb: caducity, decrepitude.

Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky.

Disease

Delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy; cachexia, atrophy, marasmus; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay; (deterioration); decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.

Evening

Noun: evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun,Noun: evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Subsidence, wane, ebb, decline; ebbing; descent; decrement, reflux, depreciation; deterioration; anticlimax; mitigation; (moderation).

Oldness

Noun: oldness; Adjective: age, antiquity; cobwebs of antiquity. maturity; decline, decay; senility.

Refusal

Verb: refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down; nill, negative; refuse one's assent, withhold one's assent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse; grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pass.

Rejection

Verb: reject; set aside, lay aside; give up; decline; (refuse); exclude, except; pluck, spin; cast.

Weakness

Verb: be weak; Adjective: drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave.

Crosswords: Decline

You who regrets nothing, you who feels nothing, if that's all I have left to learn, I can do that on my ownand as much as your invitation may appeal to me, I regretfully decline. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I must decline. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

The quickest muzzle throw it on my mouth and I'll decline (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast)

Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968)

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998)

Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce (1985)

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline and Transformation of the Kanguku Juku (reference)

• Forest decline and air pollution : a study of spruce (Picea abies) on acid soils (reference)

• Decline of the West: Volume I, Form and Actuality (reference)

• Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry (History) (reference)

• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 - The Metal Years (reference)

• The Decline of the American Empire (reference)

• The Decline of Western Civilization Part II-The Metal Years (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Arthur - Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire (reference)

• Infection and Decline (reference)

• The Decline & Fall of Heavenly (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Man-made canal with eroding bank. The cutting of canals often changes the water circulation in marsh systems and can lead to their decline. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Horned pondweed - Zannichellia palustrus - growth usually peaks in June and begins covering the beaches. Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) provides food and habitat for a wide variety of biota, but has been in serious decline for the last several decades. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The result of changes of water temperature on fisheries is significant. As water temperatures rise and nutrient levels decline, shoals of cold-water-loving small pelagics scatter and descend to depths of 150 to 200 meters, where they are not accessible to traditional surface purse seiners, or they migrate south. Credit: Fisheries.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Oyster - Crassotrea virginica. Pollution and overharvesting caused a decline in this fishery but now numbers are increasing. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

The G.O.P. in a decline. Credit: Library of Congress.

Decline of Winston Churchill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Large turpentine still and processing plant near Valdosta, Georgia. This represents industrialization of the turpentine process and forecasts the decline of small processors with their stills in the woods. Farmers will do their own chipping and dipping in. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people, in a matter where the law is silent, or doubtful, and the thing be of great consequence, I should think the proper umpire, in such a case, should be the body of the people: for in cases where the prince hath a trust reposed in him, and is dispensed from the common ordinary rules of the law; there, if any men find themselves aggrieved, and think the prince acts contrary to, or beyond that trust, who so proper to judge as the body of the people, (who, at first, lodged that trust in him) how far they meant it should extend? But if the prince, or whoever they be in the administration, decline that way of determination, the appeal then lies no where but to heaven; force between either persons, who have no known superior on earth, or which permits no appeal to a judge on earth, being properly a state of war, wherein the appeal lies only to heaven; and in that state the injured party must judge for himself, when he will think fit to make use of that appeal, and put himself upon it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact

In his decline, Napoleon again found Wurmser before him, but young

Then he asked Jack Lawton to decline the noun mare and Jack Lawton stopped at the ablative singular and could not go on with the plural

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Significant decline in renal function. (references)

They have turned up evidence linking this decline to memory impairment. (references)

For example, antidementia drugs may relieve confusion and slow mental decline. (references)

Business

Asylum applications continued to decline. (references)

Sales are expected to decline in the coming years. (references)

These authorities may approve or decline the requests. (references)

Children

Zambia

The number of children enrolled in public schools at the primary levels continued to decline. (references)

China

An extensive health care delivery system has led to improved child health and a sharp decline in infant mortality rates. (references)

Gabon

However, with the decline in such revenues in the late 1990's, the upkeep of schools and payment of teachers has suffered. (references)

Civil Liberties

Azerbaijan

International assistance to the refugee and IDP population continued to decline. (references)

Central African Republic

The Ministry may decline to register, suspend the operations of, or ban any organization that it deems offensive to public morals or likely to disturb the peace. (references)

China

Others attribute the decline to the success of the Government crackdown on Falun Gong, which, by the end of the year, had essentially eliminated public manifestations of the movement. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Trade union membership is on the decline. (references)

Kenya

In the late 80s, production started to decline. (references)

Mexico

Commercial bank lending has continued to decline. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

However, human rights groups report that the number of such cases continued to decline. (references)

Mongolia

The percentage of inmates who die of the disease continued to decline from previous years, decreasing by 50 percent to under 50 deaths. (references)

Yemen

The law provides detainees with the right to inform their families of their arrests and to decline to answer questions without an attorney present. (references)

Indigenous People

Malaysia

One NGO advocate asserts that the land rights situation of the Orang Asli continues to decline, as land previously set aside as Orang Asli reserve is being re-zoned for development use. (references)

Minorities

Poland

Although surveys have shown a continuing decline in anti-Semitic sentiment, anti-Semitic feelings persisted among certain sectors of the population, occasionally manifesting themselves in acts of vandalism and physical or verbal abuse. (references)

Hungary

In view of the higher birth rate among Roma compared with the general decline in the majority population, observers believe that this percentage is likely to remain constant or grow, which causes concern among a substantial portion of the majority population. (references)

Political Economy

JAMAICA

This is a 1.6 percent decline over the revised 2000/01 budget. (references)

JAMAICA

Employment in that sector is approximately 13,000, a decline of 64 percent from 1995. (references)

JAMAICA

The Jamaican economy grew by 0.8 percent in 2000 after four consecutive years of economic decline. (references)

Political Rights

Marshall Islands

However, urbanization and the movement of the population away from the lands that they control is leading to a decline in traditional authority exercised by women. (references)

Trade

Georgia

The cost of lending remains high but is expected to decline as Georgia's banking sector develops. (references)

Haiti

These banks can offer longer-term loans and assume risks, which commercial banks would have to decline. (references)

Travel

Australia

Australia's telecommunications infrastructure is excellent; national and international prices continue to decline as competition increases. (references)

Ghana

The unit of currency is the cedi (¢), which is divided into 100 pesewas (p). With the decline in the value of the cedi, use of the pesewa has ceased. (references)

Thailand

Thailand's economic plunge in 1997 caused a sharp decline in the demand for telecommunications services that included landline telephone, cellular phone, radio communications, paging, and VSAT services . Consequently, planned investments in the expansion of 6 million landline telephones and cellular phones in the radio frequency ranges of 1500 and 1900-megahertz have been deferred . However, the installation of rural public long distance telephone lines and the installation of submarine fiber optic cable were not affected by the economic crisis. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

Most of the participants also reported a decline in their mental health. (references)

Mauritania

The change in figures appears to reflect both prior overestimation and a significant decline in the practice in recent years. (references)

Georgia

The kidnaping of women for marriage continued to occur, especially in rural areas, although the practice continued to decline. (references)

Worker Rights

Czech Republic

Union membership continued to decline during the year. (references)

Grenada

Labor Ministry officials estimate that 25 percent of the work force is unionized, a decline reflecting loss of jobs during the year. (references)

China

The fact that these novices were not regular members of the monasteries has allowed authorities to deny that there has been a significant decline in the numbers of monks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "decline": be on the decline ♦ decline an invitation ♦ decline an offer ♦ decline in quality ♦ decline list ♦ decline of industry ♦ decline of water table ♦ Mental Decline ♦ moral decline ♦ on the decline ♦ phreatic decline ♦ sharp decline ♦ slight decline. Additional references.

Beginning with "decline": decline-and-fall.

Afrikaans

agteruitgang (abatement, going, going down, rear-exit), agteruitgaan (go back, go backwards, recede), agteruitboer (recede), afneem (decrease, wane). (various references)

Albanian

dobësim (breakdown, debilitation, decrepitude, depravation, dilution, ebb, emaciation, emasculation, enervation, exhaustion, failure, flagging, wane, weakening), perëndim (evening, occident, recess, setting, West), fund (back, base, bed, bottom, death, decease, doom, end, ending, epilogue, extremity, finality, finish, foot, foundation, ground, Omega, petticoat, quietus, rock bottom, skirt, sole, stub, tag, tail, tailpiece, terminal, termination), hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, controvert, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, knock out, push aside, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside), keqësim (aggravation, degradation, deterioration, exacerbation, letdown), lakoj (bend, crook, curve, inflect), mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, despatch, die, dispatch, do, drink up, eat up, end, finish, get through, go out, lapse, perish, peter out, spend, surcease, terminate, wind up), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), përkul (bend, crook, curve, double, flex, hunch, incline, inflect, overarch, warp, weigh down), ulje çmimi (depreciation, mark down, price cutting, price-slashing), perëndoj (go west), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), refuzoj (debar, deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, negative, override, overrule, rat, rebuff, refuse, reject, relinquish, renounce, spurn, throw over, thumb down, withhold), sëmundje e rëndë, tatëpjetë (bevel, declivity, descent, dip, down, downhill, downward, downwards, incline, ramp, slant, slope), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), nuk pranoj (deny, differ, disapprove, disclaim, ignore, override, protest, push away, reject, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, set aside, spurn, throw off, thumb down). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حنى (crook, crouch, double, lean), ‏آخر (another, different, else, last, latest, other, utmost), ‏أرذل, ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), ‏إنحدر (batter, bevel away, descend, devolve, dip, drop, incline, pitch, run, shelve, slant, slope), ‏إنحدار (coming down, declivity, downgrade, downhill, falling, inclination, rake, ramp, scarp, slope, steep, tilt), ‏إنحط (decay, degenerate, degrade, ebb, retrograde), ‏رفض (defy, denial, denied, deny, disallow, disapproval, disapprove, dismiss, ignore, negate, negation, negative, nix, objection, odium, overrule, pass up, rebuff, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, renouncement, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, scorn, set aside, throw out, throw over, toss, turn down), ‏تقدم نحو النهاية, ‏فقد أهميته, ‏نزول (coming down, descent, embarkation), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏هبط (come down, descend, dive, fall, set down, slump, subside), ‏هبوط (descent, down, drop, falling, grounding, landing, letdown, slip, subsidence, trough), ‏منتهى (completed, done, maximum), ‏منحدر (aslope, chute, declivity, descending, descent, dipped, downgrade, downhill, downward, inclined, slanted, slope, sloped, sloping, talus), ‏كل مرض يضوي الجسم, ‏ذبول تدريجي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

влошаване (aggravation, decay, depravation, deterioration, exasperation, reversal, vitiation), намаление (abridgement, curtailment, cutback, decrease, discount, rebate, reduction, run down), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), нанадолнище (declivity, downgrade, inclination, slope down), накланям се (lurch, pitch, slope down), отивам към край си, отпадане (decay, droping out, failure, fall out, falling away, obsolescence), отказвам (deny, misfire, negative, protest, rebuff, refuse, thumb down), отказвам се от (abandon, abnegate, call off, deny oneself, disavow, discard, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, give up, jettison, part with, pass up, put away, remise, renounce, repudiate, retract, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), залез (ebb, eclipse, set, setting, sunset, twilight), влошавам се (decay, retrograde), унижавам се (abase oneself, crawl, deign, eat humble pie, grovel, prostrate oneself, stoop, swallow one's pride), клоня към залез (dip), туберкулоза (phthisis, tb, the white scourge, tubercle, tuberculosis), спадам (decrease, deflate, dip, ease, ease off, ebb, fall, lower, recede, sag, sink, turn down), спускам се (drop, fall, fling, flow, get down, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, swoop, take downhill), соча надолу, скланям (bring round, induce, inflect, persuade, resolve, win, win over, win round), склон (ascent, declivity, descent, downhill, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, incline, pitch, pitching, ramp, side, slant, slope, talus, versant), упадък (decadence, decadency, declination, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, depravation, descent, labefaction, regress, regression, retrogression), отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside). (various references)

Chinese 

辭 (bid farewell, diction, resign, say goodbye, take leave), 衰落 (Decadence), 衰退 (drop, fall, falter), 衰 (decay, feeble, mourning garments, weak), 敗落 , 昃 (afternoon). (various references)

Czech

rozvrat (demoralization, disintegration, upheaval), klesat (be on the decline, descend, drop, fall, fall off, go down, lose height, sink, subside, wane), ochabnout (become flabby, decrease, fizzle out, flag, quail, sag, slacken), odříci (recant), odboèit (branch off, deflect, deviate, digress, run off, stray, strike off), odmítnout (deny, impeach, kill, rebuff, refuse, reject, renege, repel, repudiate, repulse, snub, turn down, wave aside), ohnout (bow, bow down, crook, curve, flex, incurve), úpadek (bankruptcy, come down, comedown, decadence, decay, degradation, deterioration, labefaction, lapse, recession, retrogression, retroversion), rozpad (breakup, disintegration, dissolution), zhoršovat se, skloòovat (inflect), slábnout (die away, die down, ebb away, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, falter, flag, weaken), svažovat se (descend, dip, incline, shelve, slant, slope down), ubývání (diminution), ubývat (be on the wane, decrease, dwindle, ebb, sink, subside, wane, waste), upadat (be on the decline, fall, rot, wane), pokles (decrease, depression, diminution, dip, drop, fall, sag, subsidence). (various references)

Danish

saenkning af grundvandsspejlet (decline of water table, phreatic decline), regioner ramt af industriel tilbagegang (declining industrial areas (preferred version), regions affected by industrial decline), region med industrier i tilbagegang (region seriously affected by industrial decline), ozonsvind (ozone decline, ozone decrease, ozone depletion, ozone diminution, ozone reduction), ozonnedbrydning (ozone decline, ozone decrease, ozone depletion, ozone diminution, ozone reduction), ozonformindskelse (ozone decline, ozone decrease, ozone depletion, ozone diminution, ozone reduction), industriområder i tilbagegang (declining industrial areas (preferred version), regions affected by industrial decline), fortynding af ozonlaget ved sydpolen om foråret (spring ozone decline, springtime ozone depletion), forsinke de menneskelige funktioners forfald (delaying the functional decline of the individual), fald i ozonkoncentrationen om foråret (seasonal decline, seasonal depletion, seasonal ozone decline, seasonal ozone depletion, springtime decline, springtime ozone decline), erklære sig inkompetent til fordel for den ret,ved hvilken sagen er anlagt først (to decline jurisdiction in favour of the court first seized). (various references)

Dutch

kleiner worden (decrease, diminish, wane), dalen (decrease, descend, go down, land, wane), afnemen (abate, abstract, buy, clear away, decrease, diminish, drop, fall, purchase, remove the cloth, settle, take away, take over, wane). (various references)

Esperanto

regreso (going down), malprosperi (recede), malprogresi (recede), malpliboniĝi (fall off, go back), malgrandiĝi (decrease, wane). (various references)

Faeroese

afturgongd (going down). (various references)

Farsi 

مایل شدن , نپذیرفتن (Disallow, Refuse, Rejcet, Repel), کاهش (Abate, Decrease, Diminution, Rebate, Reduction, Scaledown, Slake, Wastage), کاستن (Abate, Decrease, Detract, Discount, Drawoff, Lessen, Lighten, Pare, Rebate, Shorten, Soften, Subtract), تنزل کردن (Decay, Fall), زوال (Chute, Consumption, Decadence, Decay, Downfall, Fall, Lapse), خم شدن (Bow, Buckle, Lean, Lob, Recline, Sag, Stoop, Wilt), انحطاط (Chute, Decadence, Degeneration, Downfall, Downhill, Retrogradation, Slough), روبزوال گذاردن , ردکردن (Balk, Confute, Controvert, Deny, Disallow, Disapprove, Disavow, Disclaim, Disown, Disprove, Gainsay, Ignore, Impugn, Overrule, Rebuff, Rebut, Refuse, Refute, Rejcet, Repel, Repudiate, Veto), شیب پیداکردن (Slant). (various references)

Finnish

turmelus (decay, demoralization, depravity), taivuttaa (bend, bow, conjugate, fold, induce, inflect, persuade), taantumus (reaction, recession, set-back), taantua (suffer a set-back), riutumus (pining away), riutuminen (pining away), rappiotila (decadence, decay, degeneracy), rappio (decay, ruin), laskusuunta (fall), kieltäytyä (abstain, give up, refrain, refuse, refuse a person something), hylätä (abandon, cancel, desert, disallow, discard, dismiss, disown, forsake, leave, refuse, reject), heikkeneminen (abatement, weakening). (various references)

French

diminuer (decrease, depress, detract). (various references)

Frisian

efterútgong (abatement, going down, rear-exit). (various references)

German

deklinieren, schrumpfung (atrophy, contraction, depreciation, diminution, dwindling, shrinkage, shrinking), abhang (acclivity, bank, declivity, descent, hillside, incline, scarp, slope), ablehnen (challenge, disallow, disapprove of, disclaim, object, oppose, opt out, overrule, quash, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn, throw out, to decline, to defeat, to deprecate, to depreciate, to disclaim, to disown, to refuse, to repudiate, to turn down, turn down, vote out), abnahme (abatement, acceptance, acceptance sampling plan, administering, amputation, carrying out, certification, decrease, demand, drop, falling off, flagging, holding, inspection, purchase, removal, sale, slackening, slump, taking down, waning), abnehmen (administer, amputate, become less crass, buy, carry out, decrease, deduct, diminish, drop, ebb, extract, flag, go down, hold, inspect, lessen, lift, lose weight, pull off, reduce one's weight, relieve, remove, shrink, slack off, slacken off, slim down, slow down, tail off, take away, take down, take off, thin down, to lose weight, to take down, to take off, unpeg, unship, wane, wanes), absagen (call off, cancel, cry off, refuse, renege, to call off, to renege, turn down), abstieg (comedown, descend, descent, relegation, way down), beugen (bend, conjugate, deflect, diffract, inflect, submit, to diffract), ende (bottom, branch, cessation, close, conclusion, death, end, ending, exit, expiration, finish, finished, outcome, point, quietus, result, ruin, tail, termination, terminus, tine, tip, upshot), flektieren (be conjugated, be declined, bend, conjugate, inflect), neigung (affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, declination, dip, disposition, fall, fondness, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, list, obliqueness, penchant, pitch, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, rake, slant, slope, taste, tendance, tendency, tilt, turn), niedergang (abasement, comedown, companionway, decay, descent, downfall, eclipse, fall, going down, setting), rückgang (abatement, decrease, downturn, drop, fall, reaction, recession, recessiveness, reduction, regression, retrogression, shrinkage, slump), abfallen (apostatize, be left over, break away, climb down, defect, drop away, drop off, fall, fall away, fall off, incline, secede, sink away, slope away, slope down, to apostatize, to fall off, to secede), untergang (breakup, destruction, doom, downfall, fate, ruin, setting, sinking), zersetzung (corrosion, decay, decomposition, disintegration, disruptiveness, subversion, undermining), zerfallen (become enslaved, crumble, crumbling, decay, decompose, disintegrate, fall, fall apart, fall into ruin, molder, moldered, moulder, mouldered, ruined, to disintegrate, to molder, tumble down), zerfall (breakup, decay, decomposition, disintegration, fall), verschlechterung (debasement, depreciation, deterioration, failure, worsening), verfallen (addicted, be forfeited, become addicted, become dilapidated, become enslaved, become invalid, decay, deteriorate, die, dilapidated, emaciated, expire, expired, fall, fall into disrepair, fall off, invalid, lapse, lapsed, ruined, ruinous, senile, to decay, to expire, tumble down, waste), rückläufige entwicklung (falling off, regression), untergehen (be destroyed, become enslaved, become run-down, come to an end, founder, go down, go under, lose, perish, set, sink, vanish), schrumpfen (atrophy, depreciate, dwindle, get wrinkled, shrank, shrink, shrivel, shrunken, slim, to shrink, waste), talfahrt (descent, downriver trip, skid), sinken (come down, descend, diminish, droop, drop, fall, founder, go down, sag, sink, slump, subside, wane), sich verschlechtern (deteriorate, fail, get worse, worsen), senkung (counterbore, decrease, dip, drop, fall, hollow, lowering, reduction, sag, sagging, settlement, sinking, subsidence, valley), schwund (atrophy, decrease, depletion, dwindling, fading, loss, shrinkage, ullage, wastage, waste), zurücktreten (abdicate, back out, come second, diminish, fade, fall back, go down, kick back, recede, rescind, resign, retrogress, step back, step down, subside, to recede, to rescind, to retire, to retrogress, to step back, withdraw), verfall (abasement, decadence, decadences, decay, dilapidation, disrepair, expiration, expiry, exspiration, fall, lapse, lapsing, plight). (various references)

Greek 

κλίνω (cant, careen, conjugate, hang up, heel, incline, inflect, lean, list, shelve, slant, slope, tend, tilt, tip, trend, verge), παρακμή (decadence, decadency, decay, wane), αρνούμαι (abnegate, dcline, deny, disavow, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebuff, refuse). (various references)

Hebrew 

ירי�"�" (decrease, descent, down, drop, fall, going down), למוט (collapse, fall, quake, shake, totter), למאן (refuse), לשקוע (be immersed, bog, decay, degenerate, sag, settle, sink, socket, subside), ל�"חלש (become weak, flag, grow weak, run down, weaken, wilt), לסרב (defy, rebuff, refuse), שקיע�" (absorption, decadence, degeneration, sag, sedimentation, settlement, sinking, subsidence), �"ת�"ר�"רות (deterioration, rolling down), �"ת� ו� ות (decadence, degeneration), �"חלשות (enfeeblement, frailty, weakening), �"�"ר�"רות (deterioration, retrogression, rolling down), � וון (atrophy, decadence, degeneration). (various references)

Hungarian

hanyatlás (decadence, decadency, decay, declension, depression, deterioration, downgrade, downtrend, droop, drop, ebb, fall-off, retrogression, set back, set-back), csökkenés (abatement, attenuation, decrease, diminution, droop, easement, go down, lessening, letdown, loss, reduce, reduction, remission, shrinkage, shrinking, subsidence, waste). (various references)

Indonesian

memiringkan (make aslant, put an angle), membengkokkan (clamp, warp), kemunduran (decadence, declension, degeneration, regression, retrogradation, slowdown). (various references)

Italian

deperire (decay, fall, fall off, go, go back, perish, waste away, wither), declinare (deviate, differ, differ from, fall, fall off, go, go back, slope down, to deviate, verge, wane), rifiutare (deny, disallow, rebut, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn, throw over, turn down, withhold), regressione (going down, regression), peggiorare (aggravate, deteriorate, exasperate, fall, fall off, get worse, go, go back, make worse, worsen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

衰退 (decay), 衰微 (decadence, ebb tide). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

く� りざか (descent, downhill, waning), ちょうらく (decay, fall, withering), ていらく (fall, slump), ていか (deterioration, established price, fall, low price, lowering), はいざ�" (abandoned mine, defeat, down-and-out, ruin), �'�"しょう (decrease, phenomenon, reduction), �'�"たい (ebb, failure, loss, one's home unit), �'らく (depreciation, fall, slump), らくちょう (low tide, missing pages), いび (decay), ほうらく (break, cave-in, collapse, crash, pleasures of a pious life), ちょうじ�" (aviator, birdman, decay, flying ace, superman, withering), さがりめ (eyes slanting downward), たいせい (accomplishment, attainment of greatness or success, attitude, blackish blue, completion, conditions, current thought, decay, general trend, gestation, great sage, ones declining fortunes, one's declining fortunes, opposing pairs, order, organization, posture, preparations, resistance, set-up, sovereign power, stance, structure, system, the Occident, the reins of government, the West), しもさか (downhill, waning), したおし (a fall or drop), ぜ�"�'�" (gradual decrease, previous remarks), おとろえ (emaciation, weakening), すいへい (horizon, sailor, water level), すいめつ (downfall, ruin), すいせい (aquatic, aquatic life, aqueous, comet, decay, downward tendency, living in the water, Mercury, strength of a river current, this decadent world, water-based), すいび (decadence, ebb tide), すいたい (decadence, decay, declining, drunkenness, ebb tide, intoxication, presided over by, waning, weaken, weakening), たいとう (appearance of, becoming famous, coming to power, correspondence, decadence, equivalence, equivalent, large and wide, long sword, opposition, peaceful and calm, raising one's head, rise of, wearing a sword), さがり (a little after, decorative cords, hanging down, leaving). (various references)

Korean 

� 퇴. (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), shymlid (languishment, languor), shymley (consume, droop, failing, languish, languishing, pine, pining), parail (decrease, diminished, diminution, dying), obbal (abnegate; refusal, abnegation, abstain, abstention, denial, denounce, denunciation, deny, disavow, disavowal, disclaim, disown, forbid, go against, jib, negate, negation, refuse, refusing, refutation, refute, self-denial, turn down, turn down refuse), jee-chleaney (declination), goll sheese (descending, descent, fall away, go down, pass down, sinking), failleil (fail, failure, fall short). (various references)

Norwegian

nedgang (decrease), forfall (decadence, decay, lapse), avta (cease, decrease, lessen), avslå (deny). (various references)

Pig Latin

eclineday.(various references)

Portuguese

declínio (decay, declension, descent, down-grade, ebb, ebb tide, falling-off, offscourings, owl-light, twilight, wane, waste). (various references)

Romanian

diminua (adate, decrease, depress, diminish, minimize, mitigate, reduce, retrench, take the edge off), decãdea (decay, deteriorate, dilapidate, fall, fall into decay, go down, go to seed, lapse, putrefy, rot, ruin, run to seed), decãdere (decadence, decadency, decay, declension, descent, ebb, fall, shame), decadenţã (decadence, decadency, decay, retrogradation), declin (anticlimax, consenescence, decay, declension, declination, descent, downhill, ebb, fall, falling off, let down, regress, sunset, wane), declina (refuse), descreşte (abate, Bate, decrease, dewindle, diminish, fall, fall off, flag, grow, lessen, shorten, sink, subside, wane), scãpãta (go down, go under, ruin, set), apune (die, disappear, droop, fade, go down, set, sink), apus (bygone, disappearance, faded, lapsed, occident, setting, sunset, vanished, West), asfinţi (die, droop, set, sink), asfinţit (crepuscule, setting, sunset, twilight, West), coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce, suppress), se micşora (contract, diminish, dwindle, ease, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, flag, grow less, grow smaller, lessen, shrink, shrink away), se declina, fi în declin (be at low ebb, ebb), se înclina (bank, bevel, dip, incline, lean, list, slant, tilt up, tip), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), amurg (afterglow, candlelight, crepuscule, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, sunset, twilight), scãdere (abstraction, decrease, deduction, defect, deficiency, degression, derogation, diminution, drawback, drop, fall, lessening, reduction, remission, shortcoming, subtraction), sfârşit (all over, cessation, close, conclusion, death, dissolution, end, end-all, ended, ending, exhausted, finality, fine, finis, finish, issue, quietus, stop, term, termination, upshot), ftizie (phthisis), ofticã (fury, grudge, wasting), refuza (deny, disallow, foreclose, jib at, put back, rebut, refuse, reject, repudiate, repulse, resist), respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), se apleca (apply, bend, lean, nod, stoop). (various references)

Russian 

клониться (lean on), изнурительная болезнь, падение (come down, come-down, descent, down, downfall, drop, fall, falling, incidence, lapse, letdown, pitch, recession, subsidence, tumble), подходить к концу (draw to a close), приходить в упадок (decay), наклонять (bend, cant, droop, incline, lean, slants, slope, stoop, tilt, tilting, tip, vail), наклоняться (bend, bend over, dip, incline, lean, nod, stoop, tilt, tip), отклонять (deflect, divert, lead off, reject, set ~ aside, set aside, turn aside, turn down), идти к концу, отказываться (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, fail to, forgo, forsake, forsaken, forsook, recede, refuse, refused, reject, renounce, repudiate, resign, waive, waived), ухудшение (aggravation, decadence, decadency, deformation, depravation, deterioration, down grade, impairment, letdown), конец (closing, consummation, curtains, dissolution, end, ending, extremity, finish, heelpiece, latter end, quietus, tail end, termination, tip, wind up, windup), снижение (abasement, abatement, abatements, cutback, decrement, descent, diminusion, diminution, reduction, slowdown, slowdowns), склон (declivity, downhill, fall, mountainside, slope), склонять (dispose, incline, vail), склоняться, упадок (come down, decadence, decadency, decay, degeneration, degradation, depression, dilapidation, downgrade, down-grade, downswing, ebb, eclipse, non-event, regress, retrogression, wane), уменьшаться (abate, come down, decrease, depopulate, diminish, dwindle, grow down, grow downwards, peter out, remit, take off), уменьшение (abatement, decrease, decrement, degression, diminution, downturn, lessening, mitigation, reduction, remission, slippage). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spuštanje (alighting, descending, lowering), pad (collapse, come down, downfall, drop, fall, hang, overturn, spill, tumble), opadanje (decrease, decrement, downtrend, ebb, fall out, falling, fallout, loss, subsidence, wane, waning), odbiti (cast aside, counter, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean), nazadak (decay, regression), menjati (change, exchange). (various references)

Spanish

retroceso (backlash, backward motion, going down, recession, recoil, regress, regression, retrogression), desmejorarse (fall off, go back, impair, weaken, worsen), declinar (inflect, refuse, reject, repudiate, set, slip, slope, wane). (various references)

Swedish

slutta (bevel, dip, fall, incline, shelve, sink, slant, slope, verge), förfalla (decay, degenerate, degrade, dilapidate, drop through, expire, go to ruin, go to the dogs, lapse, mature), dala (ascend, climb, go up, sag, sink), betacka sig. (various references)

Turkish

düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill, tumble), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), çökme (collapse, crack up, depression, dip, downfall, sag, slump, subsidence), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside), çürümek (become unsound, canker, decay, decompose, fester, go bad, go off, languish, molder, moulder, perish, putrefy, ret, rot, sphacelate, spoil), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, convert, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone), azalma (abatement, alleviation, attenuation, decrease, decrement, degradation, diminution, drop, falling away, falling off, impairment, let up, letdown, reduce, reduction, remission, scale down, shortening, subsidence, wane), azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away), çöküş (breakup, collapse, decadence, decay, descent, downfall, fall, ruins, smash up, sunset, twilight), batmak (be in carey street, be on the wane, be swamped with, belly up, break, burst up, cave, crash, dip, fail, founder, go bankrupt, go down, go over the cliff, go to rack and ruin, go under, gravitate, hang, plunge, set, sink, slide into, submerge, swim like a brick, wane), zayıflamak (be on the wane, decay, fade, grow lean, grow thin, loose flesh, peak, reduce, slim, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken), eğimi olmak, eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, stoop, sway, tilt, warp), güçten düşüren hastalık, geri çevirmek (fall down, rebuff, refuse, reject, repel, repulse, reverse, spurn, turn away, turn back), gerileme (comedown, decadence, declension, downgrade, recession, recessional, regress, regression, retreat, retrocession, retrogadation, retrogression, setback, throwback, withdrawal), kabul etmemek (cast to the winds, disapprove, disclaim, gainsay, refuse, reject, repudiate, rule out, rule smth. out of order, turn thumbs down on, wave aside), yolun sonu (the other end of the road), batma (burst up, dip, failure, ingrowth, set, sinking, sting, submersion). (various references)

Turkmen 

kemelmek (decrease, diminish). (various references)

Ukrainian

схилятися (bow, squint), схил (bevel, chute, declension, declivity, descent, down grade, fall, grade, incidence, lean, pitch, shelving, side, skew, slant), спускатися вниз (go below), спад (chute, degression, descent, fall, ramp, relaxing, sag, wane), кінець (close, closing, end, extremity, finish, last, outcome, overthrow, terminal, truce), нахилятися (bend, bow, cant, droop, duck, lean, nod, slant, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), зниження (abatement, cadence, declension, decrease, descent, fall, falling, reduction, relief), зменшуватися (abate, decrease, dispeople, drop across, drop off, ease, ease off, fall off, turn down), зменшення (abatement, attenuation, ax, axe, cutback, cutting, decrease, decrement, degression, depression, diminution, narrowing, wane), захід (occident, proposition), заходити (call for, look in, walk in), занепадати (decay, degrade, eclipse, fall off), занепад (anticlimax, blight, chute, decadence, decadency, decay, declension, declination, degeneracy, degeneration, depression, down grade, nadir, sunset, waste, wasting). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự suy t� n, sự suy sụp (breakdown, descent, downfall), sự sụt sức, sự sụt. (various references)

Welsh

treiglo (inflect, mutate, roll). (various references)

gam. (various references)

abnegantes, abnegaverunt, abneges, abneget, abnuo, aspernabantur, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, consenescamus, consenui, declina, declinabant, declinabat, declinabimus, declinabis, declinabit, declinabitis, declinabo, declinabunt, declinans, declinant, declinante, declinantes, declinantum, declinare, declinarent, declinaret, declinassent, declinasset, declinasti, declinastis, declinat, declinate, declinatur, declinaverat, declinaveris, declinaverit, declinaverunt, declinavi, declinavit, declinemus, declinent, declines, declinet, declinetis, declive, decrescebant, decrescens, decreta, decreti, decretis, decreto, decretum, decreveram, decreverat, decreverunt, decreveruntque, decrevi, decrevimus, decrevit, decrevitque, detracta, detractant, detractaque, labaris, labatur, labor, occasu, occasum, occasus, occidam, occidamus, occidas, occidat, occidatis, occidatur, occide, occidebant, occidebat, occidebatis, occidendi, occidendum, occidendus, occident, occidente, occidentem, occidentis, occidentium, occidentur, occiderant, occiderat, occidere, occiderem, occiderent, occiderentur, occideres, occideret, occideretis, occideretur, occiderimus, occideris, occiderit, occideritis, occidero, occiderunt, occides, occidet, occidetis, occidetur, occidi, occidimus, occidis, occidisse, occidissem, occidissent, occidisses, occidisset, occidisti, occidistis, occidit, occidite, occiditis, occiditque, occidunt, recusantes, recuso, senium. (various references)

dreosan. (various references)

decliner. (various references)

contravenir. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "decline": declined, decliner, decliners, declines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dce-lite, dealine, Decaisnea, decelean, decinne, decling, deeline, Defcli, deline, Delvine, D'eslon, dewline, Dreilini, ecline, edline, sexclone. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ceiled, decile, edenic.

-2 letters: cline, deice, diene, edile, elide, lined, niece.

-3 letters: cede, cedi, ceil, cine, deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, dice, diel, dine, eide, iced, idle, lend, lice, lied, lien, line, need, nice, nide.

-4 letters: cee, cel, dee, del, den, die, din, eel, eld, end, ice, led, lee, lei, lid, lie, lin, nee.

+1 letter: declined, decliner, declines, denticle, licenced, licensed, lichened, nickeled, penciled, reclined, silenced.

+2 letters: ceilinged, celandine, clinkered, decennial, decliners, denticles, diligence, encircled, euclidean, indolence, inflected, nickelled, pencilled, stenciled.

+3 letters: ascendible, celandines, chandelier, credential, cyclodiene, cylindered, decennials, declension, declinable, decolonize, deflecting, deflection, diligences, divulgence, incredible, indecently, indelicate, indolences, indulgence, ineducable, influenced, interlaced, luminesced, nucleoside, nucleotide, reconciled, relicensed, stencilled, unlicensed.