decline

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A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae)
(quote-journal)
The act of declining or refusing something.
(quote-book) Soft declines are those declines in which the bank requires further verification.
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
To become weaker or worse.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
(RQ:Thomson Spring)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
To cause to decrease or diminish.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
{{RQ:Burton Melancholy|edition=2nd
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

''a line that declines from straightness''

''conduct that declines from sound morals''

(RQ:KJV)
To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
{{quote-text|en|year=1626|author=Philip Massinger|title=The Roman Actor
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp) This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
{{quote-text|en|year=1570|author=Roger Ascham|title=The Scholemaster|edition=1st
To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
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.

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