Declining is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECLINING 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 DECLINING

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How to use DECLINING in a sentence

• Then, as he neither would nor could learn anything, and as his health was declining rapidly, they kept him at home, sending him from one to another of the family.
• Forester smiled, and worked on in silence, declining to answer any of their questions.
• When his master, declining to negotiate, ordered him into custody he stabbed one of the negroes who seized him.
• It had a Tsar, while Russia had only a Grand Prince, and, although now declining in strength, was a troublesome neighbor to the Greek Empire.
• A few retired with the Osage, and the remainder found an asylum on the river Platte, among the Ottoes, who are themselves declining.
• Courtois that very evening declining the invitation.
• The sun was declining, while the coast presented a solid wall of ice, which precluded the possibility of landing anywhere nearer than the mouth of South River.
• We are now prepared to see why the colored population has been, for a considerable time, declining in New York and New England.
• Lands, cattle, and slaves were all heavily taxed, and the declining agriculture of the empire was finally ruined by the exorbitant demands of the state.
• As for declining to eat it, envy could never go so far as that in the country of the Greedy.
• The form of the baskets which inclosed them, was pyramidal, being larger at the bottom, and declining to the top.
• I am assured that his power is declining and that his approaching fall is manifested by undoubted indications.
• Accordingly, numbers of our oldest families are declining, and their fall will be no loss to the state.
• Cilley declining to make further concession, the challenge was renewed and the parties resumed their positions and again exchanged shots.
• Such tales are more satisfactory to young persons than to older ones, as is shown by our declining interest in fairy stories as we grow older.
• She dropped a courtesy to the parson, and sat down on the extreme edge of the chair Miss Goldthwaite offered her, declining, at the same time, her offer of a cup of tea.
• The light of the declining sun lay full on the scene of boundless solitude.
• It had an air of age that was not immortal, but stiffly declining into a stubborn resistance against the slow rigidity of death.
• The quantity of oats imported into the United Kingdom, has been declining within the last few years.
• The sun was declining fast when he gave the order to return to camp, which we found as we had left it.
• Just think of actually standing on the spot where Shem, Ham, and Japhet soothed the declining years of their father! It was hard to realize it all.
• His declining to remove Jefferson himself, is conclusive of the considerate forbearance of this truly great man.

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