decline
衰退,减少,衰落,下降
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de·clined, de·clin·ing.
- : to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it.
- : to express inability or reluctance to accept; refuse with courtesy: to decline an invitation; to decline an offer.
- : to cause to slope or incline downward.
- : Grammar. to inflect, as Latin puella, declined puella, puellae, puellae, puellam, puella in the five cases of the singular.to recite or display all or some subset of the inflected forms of a noun, pronoun, or adjective in a fixed order.
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de·clined, de·clin·ing.
- : to express courteous refusal; refuse:We sent him an invitation but he declined.
- : to bend or slant down; slope downward; descend: The hill declines to the lake.
- : to follow a downward course or path: The sun declined in the skies.
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You can also start at the top and lower your machine backwards over small cut-banks and other declines.
Pitching speed — which directly correlates to opposing batters’ offensive performance — typically begins to slow in a pitcher’s late 20s, and the decline accelerates in his 30s.
Bulatao also said Linick’s office had experienced a “double-digit decline since 2016” in employee satisfaction metrics.
After 2018, Delaware Republicans were locked out of power in the state, a punctuation mark on a long decline.
Across the United States, some 162 million people — nearly 1 in 2 — will most likely experience a decline in the quality of their environment, namely more heat and less water.
Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the decline was a result of an effort to decrease gang violence.
The loss of this “expectation” game began his decline and ultimate withdrawal from the race.
When A Christmas Carol was published just in time for the Christmas of 1843, the holiday had been in a long decline in England.
Thanks to CompStat and strategies added by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, crime continued to decline.
America, Stephens writes, is not necessarily in “decline” but rather “retreat.”
I am ready Madam,—for I have sufficiently experienced the folly of my presuming to decline it.