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(v)
(intransitive) To decrease.
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(n)
The act of declining or refusing something.
Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
An instance of descending; act of coming down.
A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
(adv)
Down a slope.
(transitive) To make smaller.
(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
(transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
To change place.
(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
(intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
To move toward the speaker.
(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
(intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
The close of the day; the coming of night.
(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
(poetic) dusk, twilight
Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
(geomorphology) The downward slope of a curve.
(physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
A defeat.
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
Alternative spelling of falloff. [A reduction or decline.]
(intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
A downward trend, or the beginnings of one.
(adj)
allowed to drop or fall.
A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.
Alternative form of freefall. [(physics) A state of motion affected by no acceleration or force other than that of gravity.]
decline
A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.
(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
The act of something being lowered.
Moving or sloping downwards.
The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
A process by which anything disintegrates.
The act by which something is toppled.
Alternative spelling of breakup. [The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.]
(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
(transitive) To push or throw over.
The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
(orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, economic activity, etc.
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
A lessening, decrease or reduction.
A temporary failure; a slip.
(transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.
(transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
(intransitive) To vanish.
The action of disappearing or vanishing.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
the result of a slumping movement, like that of a mountain
(intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
The act by which somebody is ousted; an ouster.
The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
The removal or lessening of something's value.
An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
(economics, etc.) A rapid fall, e.g. in price or value.
The quality of being luxuriously self-indulgent.
(now chiefly US) The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
The act, process, or result of reducing.
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
(chemistry) That causes reduction.
A light blow or jolting collision.
(transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
(usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
The decline in value of assets.