declining 的 3 个定义
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.
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.
- (8)
- 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.
- (6)
declining 近义词
say no
lessen, become less
declining 的近义词 44 个
- decrease
- depreciate
- deteriorate
- diminish
- drop
- dwindle
- fail
- fall
- lower
- recede
- return
- sag
- shrink
- sink
- slide
- wane
- weaken
- worsen
- abate
- backslide
- cheapen
- decay
- degenerate
- disintegrate
- droop
- ebb
- fade
- flag
- languish
- lapse
- pine
- relapse
- retrograde
- revert
- rot
- settle
- subside
- disimprove
- fall off
- go downhill
- go to pot
- go to the dogs
- hit the skids
- lose value
declining 的反义词 24 个
descend
更多declining例句
- 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.
- And I, for one, absolutely decline to believe in this preposterous story of his about a bull-dog.
- He continued active till his 35th year, when he began to decline, and died of water in the chest.
- They are made in kindness, and show interest, but if you decline seeing such callers, there is no offence given.
- If your state of health deprives you of appetite, it is bad enough for you to decline the invitation to dine out.