Deteriorate vs. Decline

Deteriorateverb

(transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.

Deteriorateverb

(intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

Deteriorateverb

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

Deteriorateverb

To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

Deteriorateverb

become worse or disintegrate;

Deteriorateverb

grow worse;

Deteriorateverb

become progressively worse

Declinenoun

Downward movement, fall.en

Declinenoun

A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.en

Declinenoun

A weakening.en

Declinenoun

A reduction or diminution of activity.

Declinenoun

The act of declining or refusing something.

Declineverb

(intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

Declineverb

(intransitive) To become weaker or worse.

Declineverb

(transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

Declineverb

(transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.

Declineverb

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

Declineverb

(transitive) To refuse, forbear.

Declineverb

To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.

Declineverb

(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

Declineverb

To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.

Declineverb

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

Declineverb

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.

Declineverb

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.

Declineverb

To turn away; to shun; to refuse; - the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

Declineverb

To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

Declineverb

To cause to decrease or diminish.

Declineverb

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.

Declineverb

To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

Declineverb

To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

Declinenoun

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.

Declinenoun

That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

Declinenoun

A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.

Declinenoun

change toward something smaller or lower

Declinenoun

a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

Declinenoun

a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

Declinenoun

a downward slope or bend

Declineverb

grow worse;

Declineverb

refuse to accept;

Declineverb

show unwillingness towards;

Declineverb

grow smaller;

Declineverb

go down;

Declineverb

go down in value;

Declineverb

inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,

Declineverb

(typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease

Declineverb

diminish in strength or quality; deteriorate

Declineverb

politely refuse (an invitation or offer)

Declineverb

(especially of the sun) move downwards

Declineverb

bend down; droop

Declineverb

(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.

Declinenoun

a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value

Declinenoun

the sun's gradual setting

Declinenoun

a disease in which the bodily strength gradually fails, especially tuberculosis