A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
A weakening.
Downward movement, fall.
A reduction or diminution of activity.
The act of declining or refusing something.
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).
A mountain or hill pass.
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
(usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
The regions between the outfielders.
A vacant space or time.
A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
To leave suddenly.
To notch, as a sword or knife.
To check the size of a gap.
To make an opening in; to breach.