To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
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 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 weakening.
Downward movement, fall.
A reduction or diminution of activity.
The act of declining or refusing something.
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
To pull (something) back or back inside.
Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.