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 turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
To check; to reprimand.
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
To sob with convulsions.
To stub out (a cigarette etc).
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Conspicuously short.
Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.