to decline
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3.7
- verb
- /dɪˈklaɪn/
:
disminuir
- Our profits continued to decline due to increased competition in the market.
- declining rates
- declining population
- declined 18 percent
But tech, tech is currently declining in value relative to tangible.
- But tech, tech is currently declining in value relative to tangible.
- This nation's health is declining and I see why.
- How long that last, we're starting to see those effects decline as well.
- As that declines, the cost goes up.
- And so your your opposition declines when you let them leave.
- How long that will last, we're starting to see those effects decline as well.
- And we know that also men's testosterone declines as they age as well.
- Yes, OK, if it now we believe it is declining, why?
- Sometimes that happens and then it'll start declining slowly.
- Again, leaders of this country, we have declined and strong leaders.
Examples
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It's going to continue to decline and erode.
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Lending and economic growth would decline, dealing a severe blow to an already fragile economic system.
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How long that last, we're starting to see those effects decline as well.
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And the costs may not decline as many expect.
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This nation's health is declining and I see why.
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However, after 1950, manufacturing employment began to decline about three or four percent per decade.
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Your grades have been steadily declining.
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The military value of high ground declined as the threat of war receded.
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France was the first country to experience a declining birthrate in the nineteenth century.
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The decline in concert attendance echoes a trend in declining student music participation in the public schools.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Become less in number or amount
321
1.9
To become less in amount, size, or value
201
3.7
To become less in size, importance, or value
146
5.9
To get worse in quality, condition, or value
72
5.1
To become smaller or less in number over time
61
3.9
To make a situation or condition less good
49
5.1
To make something worse in quality or value
49
2.6
Become less in number, amount, or quality
48
6.4
To become less in size, amount, or strength
37
3.9
To become worse over time in quality or condition
21
3.5
To become less in number or amount
20
7.4
To become worse and more chaotic
19
4.3
To become less in amount or quality
16
4.1
To fall suddenly by a large amount, for example in price or activity
14
6.6
To fall in value after a period of rapid rise
9
5.9
To lose value over time, especially money or assets
9
4.5
To become smaller or weaker over time until it stops
2
3.3
To become less over time
1
4.6
Slowly get smaller in number or amount until nothing remains
1
5.1
To become slowly smaller or less until almost nothing remains
Antonyms
Compounds
How Much
579
3.9
146
5.9
344
3.7
191
1.0
∞
1.0
47
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Decline comes from the Latin parts de- 'down' and clinare 'to bend'. So to decline something in amount or quality is like 'bending down', which helps you remember it means to become less or worse.