📖 Definitions of "Declined"
verb
- 1
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
"The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001."
- 2
To become weaker or worse.
"My health declined in winter."
- 3
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- 4
To cause to decrease or diminish.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Declined"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| deteriorating | Getting worse. |
| downverb | (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell. |
| dyingnoun | Approaching death; about to die; moribund. |
| falling | a real-time card game from James Ernest in which all players are falling from the sky for no apparent reason. |
| failingnoun | weakness; defect |
| retrogradeverb | (transitive) (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion. |
| regressing | Undergoing regression |
| retrogressivenoun | Directed towards the rear or the past; retrograde. |
| regressive | That tends to return, revert or regress. |
| decreasingnoun | On the decrease. |
| abated | (poetry) humbled. |
| abstainedverb | (intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. |
| apologizedverb | (intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends |
| attenuated | Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation. |
| beenverb | (Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be. |
| contracted | (not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement. |
| crumbled | broken into small fragments |
| curtailedverb | (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate. |
| cutverb | (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something. |
| deceleratedverb | (intransitive) To go slower. |
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