declined
衰落的,衰落,下降的,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.
- : to draw toward the close, as the day.
- : to fail in strength, vigor, character, value, etc.; deteriorate.
- : to fail or dwindle; sink or fade away: to decline in popularity.
- : to descend, as to an unworthy level; stoop.
- : Grammar. to be characterized by declension.
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- : a downward slope; declivity.
- : a downward movement, as of prices or population; diminution: a decline in the stock market.
- : a failing or gradual loss, as in strength, character, power, or value; deterioration: the decline of the Roman Empire.
- : a gradual deterioration of the physical powers, as in later life or in disease: After his seventieth birthday he went into a decline.
- : progress downward or toward the close, as of the sun or the day.
- : the later years or last part: He became an editor in the decline of his life.
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Examples
It’s just the latest in a bumper year of piracy for the region, reversing what had been a decline in global piracy.
Less than a month after the Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy in February, the coronavirus pandemic closed schools and halted many in-person Scouting programs, weakening membership that was already on the decline.
The biggest decline was in the transportation sector, which fell by 14%, the report found.
This will see two new carbon capture and storage “clusters” built by the middle of this decade, helping to support 50,000 jobs, potentially in parts of northeastern England where heavy industry has been in decline.
Publishers have to build for scarcity, whether it comes in the near term via the pandemic and its economic consequences extending into 2021, or further down the line as one revenue stream or another faces erosion and decline.
The Italian foreign ministry has declined to comment on the video.
She adds that they continued to email, but “finally, in so many words, he declined to be interviewed.”
Fossella declined to run again, but in the years since he has mused aloud about challenging Grimm.
But the current pontiff, for reasons one might fully understand, declined to meet the would-be papal assassin.
Abu Faour declined repeated requests to comment for this article.
But, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
He drew himself up more stiffly than before, as he declined the offer.
They gardened, they drove out, they rowed and sailed upon the lake, but they declined all acquaintances.
That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.
Mr. Pontellier declined to interfere, to interpose either his influence or his authority.