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to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse.

to express inability or reluctance to accept; refuse with courtesy.

to cause to slope or incline downward.

Grammar.��

1. to inflect (a noun, pronoun, or adjective), as Latin puella, declined puella, puellae, puellae, puellam, puella in the five cases of the singular.

2. to recite or display all or some subset of the inflected forms of a noun, pronoun, or adjective in a fixed order.

to express courteous refusal; refuse.

to bend or slant down; slope downward; descend.

(of pathways, routes, objects, etc.) to follow a downward course or path.

to draw toward the close, as the day.

to fail in strength, vigor, character, value, etc.; deteriorate.

to fail or dwindle; sink or fade away.

to descend, as to an unworthy level; stoop.

Grammar.��to be characterized by declension.

a downward slope; declivity.

a downward movement, as of prices or population; diminution.

a failing or gradual loss, as in strength, character, power, or value; deterioration.

a gradual deterioration of the physical powers, as in later life or in disease.

progress downward or toward the close, as of the sun or the day.

the later years or last part.