Usually means: Reduction or decrease in quality.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. decline: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. decline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decline, decline: Wordnik
  7. decline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decline: Wiktionary
  9. decline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decline: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. decline: Dictionary.com
  13. decline: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decline (song), Decline, The Decline (EP), The Decline (band), The Decline (film), The Decline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Decline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. decline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. decline: Rhymezone
  19. decline: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. decline: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. decline: Free Dictionary
  22. decline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. decline: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. decline: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Decline: Investopedia
  3. decline: Legal dictionary
  4. decline: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decline: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DEClINE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decline, the decline: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decline: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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