0 present participle of decline
2 to refuse:
3 If a noun, pronoun, or adjective declines, it has different forms to show if it is the subject or object, etc. of a verb or if it is singular or plural, etc. If you decline such a word, you list its various forms:
For grey squirrels the expansion in tetrads occupied appeared to rise asymptotically, with the expansion declining after 1999.
These have in common declining social status and degradation of selfimage, as the cultural ideal, youthful femininity, can no longer be met.
The declining body is encouraged to isolate itself at the margins of society in self-funded specialist housing.
The primary reasons for declining participation were not having enough time or not being interested in completing surveys.
As also concluded by those authors, the declining infectivity with age of a population of cercariae is a consequence of increasing numbers of cercarial deaths.
Rising costs and declining profits will force some firms out of the fishery.
It was only at considerably lower axis water contents that signs of intracellular deterioration were noted, coincident with declining viability of the rapidly-dried seeds.
Measles outbreaks in a population with declining vaccine uptake.