Word Finder - declined

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To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

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The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.

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To become weaker or worse.

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My health declined in winter.

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To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

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To cause to decrease or diminish.

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To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

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a line that declines from straightness

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To refuse, forbear.

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On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.

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(grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.

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(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

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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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The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.

I declined to pay.

Alex declined his help with their luggage and he left them to their own devices.

In retaliation Arran occupied and stripped his castle at Crichton, whereupon Bothwell in November sent Arran a challenge, which the latter declined.

In 63, with a strong army, he crossed the Euphrates, but Tiridates declined to give battle and concluded peace.

In 1865 Dana declined an appointment as a United States district judge.

Less than a century later it became the prize of Jenghiz Khan, who, having his main interests centred on the Mongolian steppes, declined to move his court southwards.

With the change of the methods of transportation its importance has naturally declined.

He declined invitations from Cambridge, but accepted from Archbishop Laud a prebend in Canterbury cathedral without residence, and went to England to be installed in 1629, when he was made LL.D.

Still, however, William declined to recognize the new throne, and he had behind him the unanimous support of Dutch public opinion.

Towards the latter part of 1904 the price of fine Para reached a high level and then considerably declined, reaching in 1907-8 a lower figure than had been recorded since 1900.

Prior to the building of the trans-Siberian railway a fairly active trade was carried on between China and the Amur region; but since the opening of that railway (in 1902-1905) the Amur region has seriously and rapidly declined in all that concerns trade, industry, general prosperity and civilization.

In 1850 England headed the list of producers with about 66,000 tons; this amount had declined in 1872 to 61,000 tons.

Throughout these years he declined to remove the sentence of excommunication which he had passed upon Michael, and after his death, when the new patriarch Josephus gave absolution to the emperor, the quarrel was carried on between the "Arsenites" and the "Josephists."

He declined the honour, and they then took up the idea that the next best thing they could do would be to elect some great and wealthy English noble, not concealing the hope that although they might have to offer him a Civil List he would decline to receive it.

He acquiesced in the purchase of the Suez Canal shares, a measure then considered dangerous by many people, but ultimately most successful; he accepted the Andrassy Note, but declined to accede to the Berlin Memorandum.

His part in the later phases of the Russo-Turkish struggle has never been fully explained, for with equal wisdom and generosity he declined to gratify public curiosity at the cost of some of his colleagues.

The chiefs of these colonies were invited to place them under the protection of the Portuguese crown, but these at first affecting loyalty to Spain declined the offer, then threw off the mask and declared themselves independent, and the Spanish governor, Elio, was afterwards defeated by Artigas, the leader of the independents.

The republican government offered to compensate him for the property he had held in Brazil as emperor, but this proposal was declined.

For as Athanasius and Marcellus of Ancyra appeared on the scene, and the Western bishops declined to exclude them, the Eusebian bishops of the East absolutely refused to discuss, and contented themselves with formulating a written protest addressed to numerous foreign prelates.

He served in the Northern Campaign under his father-in-law, General Taylor, and was greatly distinguished for gallantry and soldierly conduct at Monterey and particularly at Buena Vista, where he was severely wounded early in the engagement, but continued in command of his regiment until victory crowned the American arms. While still in the field he was appointed (May 1847) by President Polk to be brigadier-general of volunteers; but this appointment Davis declined, on the ground, as he afterwards said, "that volunteers are militia and the Constitution reserves to the state the appointment of all militia officers."

Andries Pretorius and others, however, declined to remain, and from this time Pretorius (q.v.) ceased his connexion with Natal.

The offer was declined, but in 1883 the legislative council was remodelled so as to consist of 23 elected and 7 nominated members.

But he preferred keeping himself at liberty to serve his countrymen unshackled by official ties, and declined the invitation.

But though he declined to share the responsibility of Lord Palmerston's administration, he was willing to act as its representative in promoting freer commercial intercourse between England and France.

But with characteristic disinterestedness and modesty he declined all such honours.

The once considerable manufacture of fustian has declined.

The polemic on both sides was violent; but, as usual, the extreme views prevailed, and on the assembling of the diet of 1843 Kossuth was more popular than ever, while the influence of Szechenyi had sensibly declined.

During President Grant's administration he was a member of the senatorial coterie that influenced most of the president's policies, and in 1873 Grant urged him to accept an appointment as chief justice of the Supreme Court, but he declined.

But Pasic, free from the restraints of a coalition and from all parliamentary control, had reverted to his original pan-Serb standpoint, and steadily declined to reconstruct his Cabinet on a wider Yugoslav basis.

On March 3, however, Italy, who had steadily refused to recognize the accomplished fact of Yugoslav unity and insisted on the Conference only admitting the Yugosla y s as a " Serbian " delegation, declined American arbitration and threatened to withdraw altogether from Paris unless their territorial demands were conceded.

After the removal of the university to Madrid in 1836 the town rapidly declined, and the government turned most of the principal buildings erected by Cardinal Jimenes in the 16th century into a depot for the archives of various state departments.

In 1842, however, Potgieter's party declined to go to the help of the Natal Boers, then involved in conflict with the British.

This offer was, however, declined by Schoeman, and both Zoutpansberg and Lydenburg indignantly repudiated the new assembly and its constitution.

On their return to South Africa the Boer generals and their colleagues aided to some extent in the work of.resettlement, but the seats offered to the Boers on the executive council were declined.

Billiton became of note in 1853 with a production of 40 tons, which increased to 6000 in 1900 and has since declined to about 3000 tons in 1905.

Australian deposits were worked in 1872, and in the following year the production was 3000 tons; the maximum outputs were in 1881-1883, averaging 10,000 tons annually; but the supply declined to 2420 tons in 1898 and has since increased to about 5028 tons in 1905.

In January 1725, on the revival of the Bath, the red riband was offered to him, but was declined.

He declined any knowledge of the Apology for a late Resignation, in a Letter from an English Gentleman to his Friend at The Hague, which ran through four editions in 1748, but there is little doubt that he was, at least in part, the author.

Cotton was produced in several places in colonial times, but the output has declined to a few thousand pounds.

The production since then has"greatly declined.

Many admirals declined to serve under Lord Sandwich, and Rodney, who then commanded in the West Indies, had complained of want of proper support from his subordinates, whom he accused of disaffection.

In 143 he was consul for two months, but declined the proconsulship of Asia on the ground of ill-health.

He declined the imperial crown in 1125.

It is not surprising when these characteristics of Lamartine's work are appreciated to find that his fame declined with singular rapidity in France.

In 1135 and 1137 it was taken by the Pisans, and rapidly declined in importance, though its maritime code, known as the Tavole Amalfitane, was recognized in the Mediterranean until 1570.

He afterwards received the thanks of parliament and of the East India Company for his gallant bearing on that important day, and a pension was offered to him by the Company, which he declined, apparently from the hope, of receiving the order of the Bath from the government.

With this civil strife the importance and prosperity of Louvain declined.

From this time he lived mostly in retirement, finding a congenial home with Lord Weymouth, his friend from college days, at Longleat in Wiltshire; and though pressed to resume his diocese in 1703, upon the death of Bishop Kidder, he declined, partly on the ground of growing weakness, but partly no doubt from his love for the quiet life of devotion which he was able to lead at Longleat.

He drafted the report of the committee on education to the general conference in 1828, at which time he declined the bishopric of the Canada conference.

Later its shipping declined and in the 16th century it was little more than a fishing village.