| to become less in amount |
| to tend toward an inferior state or weaker condition |
| to withhold consent |
| to sink toward setting |
| to draw toward a close wane |
| to slope downward descend |
| to bend down droop |
| to stoop (see stoop entry 1 sense 3b) to what is unworthy |
| to turn from a straight course stray |
| to refuse especially courteously |
| to refuse to undertake, undergo, engage in, or comply with |
| to give in prescribed order the grammatical forms of (a noun, pronoun, or adjective) |
| to cause to bend or bow downward |
| avert |
| avoid |
| the process of declining |
| a gradual physical or mental sinking and wasting away |
| a change to a lower state or level |
| the period during which something is deteriorating or approaching its end |
| a downward slope |
| a wasting disease |
| pulmonary tuberculosis |
| to slope downward descend |
| to bend down |
| to pass toward a lower state or level |
| to draw toward a close wane |
| to become less in amount |
| to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to |
| to refuse especially courteously |
| to give the declension of a noun, pronoun, or adjective |
| the process of declining |
| a gradual sinking and wasting away |
| a change to a lower state or level |
| the time when something is approaching its end |
| a downward slope |
| to tend toward an impaired state or a weaker condition |
| the process of declining |
| a gradual physical or mental sinking and wasting away |
| the period during which the end of life is approaching |
| a wasting disease |
| pulmonary tuberculosis |
