The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
The self-surrender to an outside influence.
Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
An abandoned building or structure.
The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
The act of declining or refusing something.
A weakening.
Downward movement, fall.
A reduction or diminution of activity.
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
To cause to decrease or diminish.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
To become weaker or worse.
To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).