[1333] decline

[보카길라잡이]

v. de·clined, de·clin·ing, de·clines
v. intr.

1. To express polite refusal.
2. 1. To slope downward; descend.
   2. To bend downward; droop.
3. To degrade or lower oneself; condescend.
4. To deteriorate gradually; fail.
5. 1. To sink, as the setting sun.
   2. To draw to a gradual close; wane.

v. tr.

1. To refuse politely: I declined their offer of help. See Synonyms at refuse¹.
2. To cause to slope or bend downward.
3. Grammar. To inflect (a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective) for number and case.

n.

1. The process or result of declining, especially a gradual deterioration.
2. A downward movement.
3. The period when something approaches an end.
4. A downward slope; a declivity.
5. A disease that gradually weakens or wastes the body.

decline

n 1: change toward something smaller or lower [syn: diminution]

2: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state [syn: declination] [ant: improvement]

3: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn: decay]

4: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: ascent]

v 1: grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn: worsen] [ant: better]

2: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: refuse, reject, pass up, turn down] [ant: accept]

3: show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" [syn: refuse] [ant: accept]

4: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: go down, wane]

5: go down; "The roof declines here"

6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" [syn: slump, correct]

7: inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"

Synonyms: refuse, ¹decline, reject, spurn, rebuff
These verbs all mean to be unwilling to accept, consider, or receive someone or something.

Refuse usually implies determination and often brusqueness: “The commander... refused to discuss questions of right” (George Bancroft). “I'll make him an offer he can't refuse” (Mario Puzo).

To decline is to refuse courteously: “I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters... and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize” (Sinclair Lewis).

Reject suggests the discarding of someone or something as defective or useless; it implies categoric refusal: “He again offered himself for enlistment and was again rejected” (Arthur S.M. Hutchinson).

To spurn is to reject scornfully or contemptuously: “The more she spurns my love,/The more it grows” (Shakespeare).

Rebuff pertains to blunt, often disdainful rejection: “He had... gone too far in his advances, and had been rebuffed” (Robert Louis Stevenson).

[처음이야]

decline:거절하다

[시가스팔공]

거절하다 decline