English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of decline

decline

/noun/ पतन; अवनति; क्षय; ढलान; ढाल; अधोगति; बिगाड़ना; तपेदिक़; और भी ख़राब करना;
/verb/अस्वीकार करना; झुकना; अन्त होना; नीचा होना; कमज़ोर होना; ढलना; क्षीण होना; क्षय होना; शब्दों का रूप चलाना; पतन होना; नकारना; गिरना; घटना;

Synonym fall; downgrade; decay; downhill; shield; dry rot; vulgarization; deny; bend; lower; weaken; rill;

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English Dictionary:

1. Decline

[v. i.]

- To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
- To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
- A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
- That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
- A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.

2. Decline

[v. t.]

- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
- To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
- To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.