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 lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.
A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
That which supports or sustains; support.
Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
To put (something) on one's shoulders.
To place (something) against one's shoulders.
To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
To accept responsibility for.
To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
To form a shape resembling a shoulder.