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 traverse or thwart.
To alter or transform.
To lie or run across; to cross.
To overturn.
(of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.