Decline is valid Scrabble Word

Is decline a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for DECLINE in dictionary:

VERB:

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.
become smaller, weaker, or less important
To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
To cause to decrease or diminish.
To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
grow worse
refuse to accept
show unwillingness towards
grow smaller
go down
go down in value
inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,

NOUN:

a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, or value
a disease in which the bodily strength gradually fails, especially tuberculosis
change toward something smaller or lower
a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
a downward slope or bend
gradual weakening or loss
the sun's gradual setting

Words related to DECLINE

declinable15 declined12 decliner11 decliners12 declines11 declining13

Words that contain DECLINE

declined12 decliner11 declines11 decliners12

How to use DECLINE in a sentence

If, therefore, you decline to oblige me, I shall think you are displeased with my freedom.
With these triumphs of art and science and literature, we are compelled to notice likewise a decline in morals.
It was rumoured, however, that his brain was affected, that he was paralysed, that he was deaf and blind, that he was dying of slow decline.
If Count Marescotti and Baldassare have offended you, you can decline to receive them.
They decline to undertake certain commissions, but they nevertheless report all that has taken place.
Correard far from improving, seemed on the contrary, to decline more and more, persuaded him to return to France.
I decline to sit by patiently while my son, whom I love, jests at the most sacred principles, and sneers at the memory of an anointed king.
He said that his reputation was much on the decline in Germany.
It is enough that I should decline to follow them in that path, to cause them to manifest toward me a coolness akin to antipathy.
But let us grant for the sake of argument that any decline of contemporary poets is bound to effect poetry-lovers in some mysteriously disastrous way.

The decline of the defensive motive within the last few years has greatly affected the more recent architecture.
The remarkable decline of the Mogul style which set in under Aurangzib was largely due to his bigotry in refusing to employ any but true believers.
I am, however, tired of such style, and shall decline any more of it.
But this is the established mode, and, till it be altered, the courts can no more decline their duty on these occasions than on other occasions.
If you decline to obey orders or make one false move you die instantly.
And I was but sixteen when I resolved to tell my mother that I must decline to believe any longer in a God.
When President Fillmore offered him the post of Secretary of State, in 1850, it appears to have been his preference, much as he loved office, to decline it.
My first impulse of course was to decline the very unusual task offered me with mingled horror and amusement.
To the right of this position was an open space, almost level with the immediate surroundings, but ending in a steep decline some 900 paces further on.
And the decline of hair in colour and quantity has often been imitated in the theatre with very happy ingenuity.
On some occasions he so identified himself with the character he represented as to decline to yield upon almost any terms.
At the decline of day, Petrarch quitted his study for his garden, where he delighted to open his heart in mutual confidence.
On fully considering the subject, I must decline doing so, because such a petition I deem to be quite premature.
Yet how to decline the proposal, so unexpectedly made, troubled him not a little.

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