To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
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 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 come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
To follow something in sequence or time.
To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.