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1. Oxford Dictionary

   decline

   • IPA[dɪˈklʌɪn]

   英式

   • v.
     (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease；diminish in strength or quality; deteriorate
   • n.
     a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value；the sun's gradual setting

   • verb: decline, 3rd person present: declines, gerund or present participle: declining, past tense: declined, past participle: declined

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease the birth rate continued to decline 同義詞 decrease, reduce, get smaller, grow smaller, lessen, ... 更多get less, diminish, wane, dwindle, contract, shrink, fall off, taper off, tail off, peter out, drop, fall, go down, sink, slump, plummet, plunge, fall off a cliff, informalnosedive, take a nosedive, take a header, go into a tailspin, crash反義詞 increase
   • ▪ diminish in strength or quality; deteriorate her health began to decline 同義詞 deteriorate, degenerate, decay, crumble, collapse, ... 更多fail, fall, sink, slump, slip, slide, go downhill, worsen, get worse, go to rack and ruin, stagnate, atrophy, wither, weaken, fade, fade away, wane, ebb, be abandoned, be neglected, be disregarded, be forgotten, informalgo to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, go down the toilet, go down the tubes, go to the pack, rareretrograde反義詞 flourish
   • 2. politely refuse (an invitation or offer) Caroline declined the coffee the company declined to comment 同義詞 turn down, reject, brush aside, refuse, rebuff, ... 更多spurn, disdain, look down one's nose at, repulse, repudiate, dismiss, forgo, deny oneself, pass up, refuse to take advantage of, turn one's back on, abstain (from), say no to, shake one's head, send one's regrets, informalgive the thumbs down (to), give the red light (to), give something a miss, give someone the brush-off, knock back, snout反義詞 accept
   • 3. (especially of the sun) move downwards the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline
   • ▪ archaic bend down; droop the wearisome creatures of the world declining to their rest
   • 4. (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) state the forms of (a noun, pronoun, or adjective) corresponding to case, number, and gender.

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value a serious decline in bird numbers a civilization in decline 同義詞 reduction, decrease, downturn, downswing, lowering, ... 更多devaluation, depreciation, lessening, diminishing, diminution, slackening, waning, dwindling, fading, ebb, falling off, abatement, drop, slump, plunge, tumble, downtick, informalnosedive, crash, let-up, deterioration, degeneration, degradation, shrinkage, shrinking, withering, atrophy, weakening, enfeeblement, fall, failure, death, decay, decaying, dateddecadence, raredevolution反義詞 increase
   • ▪ the sun's gradual setting this Evening from the Sun's decline arriv'd
   • ▪ a disease in which the bodily strength gradually fails, especially tuberculosis he died at his brother's of a deep decline