Declines is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECLINES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DECLINE, to refuse
• (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease
• diminish in strength or quality; deteriorate
• politely refuse (an invitation or offer)
• (especially of the sun) move downwards
• bend down; droop
• (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) state the forms of (a noun, pronoun, or adjective) corresponding to case, number, and gender.
NOUN:
• a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, or value
• a disease in which the bodily strength gradually fails, especially tuberculosis
• the sun's gradual setting

Words related to DECLINES

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How to use DECLINES in a sentence

• He declines to address his fellow-citizens in the commonplace terms usually recognised in more prosaic communities.
• With more bowing and scraping Don Lopez amiably but firmly declines to accept any refusal of his offer or to talk of business before his debt of gratitude is paid.
• It is remarkable, that with every improvement, the population of these islands declines.
• He declines to receive an English envoy and will not permit any Englishmen to reside at his court.
• Wilson, when he wishes to study the history of Spain, declines to have recourse to Spanish writers.
• Punch declines, as a general rule, to review in these columns the work of his Staff.
• He declines to believe in any reality other than that of the physical universe.
• A young man of your disposition who declines to study the whims of an unfortunate creature like myself is scarcely likely to be possessed of much sensibility.
• He gets a pile of subscriptions, and declines to publish a balance-sheet.
• One which is laid to our credit the Secretary declines to acknowledge as belonging to us at all.
• He declines, however, to allow any use to be made of his notes of what occurred during this episode.
• Hinayanist literature declines, with two exceptions, the Vinaya and the Abhidharma books of the Sarvâstivâdins.
• Though he declines from the lofty throne, whereon his own vanity and love of praise have set him, he still stands above the modest level which contents the genuinely great.
• Jay, that Lambe, under the pretext of ill health, declines returning either to Congress, Mr.
• This mode of walking the tree is only practicable where the trunk declines considerably from the perpendicular.
• Bishop Lesley expressly declines the comparing of the hands, which he calls no legal proof.
• The Government, however, declines to recognize this cumulative command.
• My banker has withdrawn from Paris, and his representative declines to look at my bill, although I offer ruinous interest.
• How steadily it declines until it reaches its setting point.
• This paper, just presented to the President, is of such a character that he declines to receive it.
• The assertion that where devotion to our Lady prevails devotion to our Lord declines is as far as possible from being true.
• The individual who declines to enter the union is denounced as a traitor to his fellow workers and is made to feel their scorn.
• He entirely declines to put on any mackintosh or overcoat.
• Of the public he asks just sufficient to secure his independence, and then declines to do anything more.

Similar words containing CLINE without suffix s and without prefix de

cline7 clines8 decline10 incline9 recline9 declined12 decliner11 inclined11 incliner10 inclines10 isocline10 reclined11 recliner10 reclines10 syncline13 anticline11 decliners12 halocline14 helicline14 incliners11 isoclines11 monocline13 pericline13 recliners11 synclines14 anticlines12 disincline13 haloclines15 heliclines15 microcline16 monoclines14 periclines14 disinclined15 disinclines14 doxycycline29 geanticline14 geosyncline17 microclines17 thermocline18 treacliness13 doxycyclines30 geanticlines15 geosynclines18 overinclined18 tetracycline19 thermoclines19 eugeosyncline19 tetracyclines20 treaclinesses15 anthracycline23 eugeosynclines20 anthracyclines24 oxytetracycline32 oxytetracyclines33 chlortetracycline29 chlortetracyclines30

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