Clues for the word "DECLINE"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 44 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 19, 2026.
Definition of decline
- v. i. - To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
- v. i. - To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
- v. t. - To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- v. t. - To cause to decrease or diminish.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
- v. t. - To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
- v. i. - A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Referring Clues
- Drop
- Just say no
- Worsen
- Refuse, as an offer
- Sink
- Refuse to drop off
- Turn down
- Refuse
- Downturn - turn down
- Refuse to go through all the cases
- Writer's month on railway with 23
- Evelyn Waugh novel
- Refuse to provide different cases
- Drop in last month's score
- Set to refuse
- Don't accept deterioration
- Refuse politely
- Courteously refuse
- Don't accept there's a diminution
- Decrease
- Evelyn Waugh satirical novel (1928)
- Say no to
- Wane
- Refuse to go into recession
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2026
- Daily Quick - September 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 25, 2025
- Daily American - February 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 12, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 01, 2023
- USA Today - October 27, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 14, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2023
- LA Times - August 27, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 22, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 25, 2023
- Daily American - February 17, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 08, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2022
- New York Times - December 25, 2021
- Mirror Classic - December 08, 2017
- Daily Quick - September 14, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2017
- And in 14 more crossword puzzles...