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decliningadjective bending downward or forwardthe declining flowers perked up with the gentle rainfall bowed, bowing, declined, descendant(also descendent), descending, drooping, droopy, hanging, hung, inclining, nodding, pendulous, sagging, stooping, weeping floppy, limpdangling, falling, pendent(or pendant), suspendeddipping, sinking, slumping unbending, upright erect, inflexible, rigid, stiffelevated, raised, upraised to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree tohe declined the invitation to the party she declined to participate in the soccer game balking (at), deselecting, disapproving, negativing, nixing, passing, passing up, refusing, rejecting, reprobating, repudiating, spurning, throwing out, throwing over, turning down blowing off, disdaining, rebuffing, scorning, scouting, shooting downoverruling, vetoingforbidding, prohibiting, proscribingdismissing, ignoringabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from)denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disputing, gainsayingstickingabjuring, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, renouncing, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawingavoiding, bypassing, detouringcontradicting, denying, disowning, negatingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, reneging, revoking turning one's back on accepting, agreeing (to), approving condoning, countenancing, swallowing, toleratingadopting, embracing, receiving, taking, welcomingacceding, acquiescing, agreeing, assenting, consentingchoosing, handpicking, selectingespousing, supporting to be unwilling to grantdeclined our request to hold a party denying, disallowing, disapproving, negativing, nixing, refusing, rejecting, reprobating, withholding banning, enjoining, forbidding, prohibiting, proscribing, vetoingrebuffing, repelling, spurningchecking, constraining, curbing, holding, keeping, repressing, restraining, restrictingbalking (at), hindering, impeding, obstructing allowing, conceding, granting, letting, OK'ing(or okaying), permitting affording, furnishing, giving, providing, supplyingauthorizing, commissioning, licensing(also licencing)acceding (to), acquiescing, agreeing (to), assenting (to), consenting (to), warrantingaccording, sanctioning, vouchsafing to go to a lower level especially abruptlynew-car sales declined to their lowest level in years crashing, cratering, descending, dipping, diving, dropping, falling, lowering, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, sinking, skidding, tumbling abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to become worse or of less valuehis reputation as a writer began to decline not long after his death atrophying, crumbling, decaying, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, devolving, ebbing, regressing, retrograding, rotting, sinking, worsening abating, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, receding, waningbreaking down, corrupting, decomposing, degrading, dilapidating, disintegrating, moldering, putrefyingsouring, spoilinglessening, lowering, reducingdebilitating, underminingdrooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting going to pot, going to seed(or running to seed) ameliorating, improving, meliorating bettering, upgradingenhancing, enriching, fortifying, heightening, intensifying, strengtheningadvancing, developing, marching, proceeding, progressing to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe winds should decline as soon as the cold front passes abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening to lead or extend downwardthe bike path declines toward the riverbank and then follows the river for several miles descending, dipping, dropping, falling, plunging, sinking angling, canting, cocking, heeling, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping arising, ascending, climbing, mounting, rising, uprising, upsweeping, upturning evening, flattening, leveling(or levelling), planing, smoothing, straightening in 1597 |