DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: NOUN
- The time of life when the physical and mental powers are failing. Quain.
- A popular term for any chronic disease in which the strength and plumpness of the body gradually diminish, until the patient dies: as, he is in a decline.
- In medicine: That stage of a disease when the characteristic symptoms begin to abate in violence.
- A failing or deterioration; a sinking into an impaired or inferior condition; falling off; loss of strength, character, or value; decay.
- A descending; progress downward or toward a close.
- A bending or sloping downward; a slope; declivity; incline.
- A downward slope; a declivity.
- A deterioration of health.
- A downward movement or fall, as in price.
- A gradual deterioration, as in numbers, activity, or quality.
- The process or result of declining, especially.
- A downward slope or bend
- A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
- Change toward something smaller or lower
- An abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset)
- The act of collapsing
- Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
- A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
- A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
- In medicine, an extreme sinking or depression; a more or less sudden failure of the vital powers: as, the stage of collapse in cholera.
- Figuratively, a sudden and complete failure of any kind; a breakdown.
- A falling in or together, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
- An abrupt loss of perceived value or of effect.
- An abrupt failure of function, strength, or health; a breakdown.
- The act of falling down or inward, as from loss of supports.
- A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- The act of throwing yourself down
- An abrupt failure of function or health
- A mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: VERB
- Refuse to accept
- Grow worse
- Show unwillingness towards
- Go down in value
- Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives inflectfornumbergendercaseetci
- Grow smaller
- Go down
- To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint
- To cause something to collapse.
- For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
- To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown
- To fall down suddenly; to cave in
- Suffer a nervous breakdown
- Fall apart
- Collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- Cause to burst
- Break down, literally or metaphorically
- Lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- Fold or close up
DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw
- 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
- To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- To inflect (a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective) for number and case.
- To cause to slope or bend downward.
- To refuse politely: : refuse.
- To draw to a gradual close.
- To sink, as the setting sun.
- To deteriorate gradually; fail.
- To degrade or lower oneself; stoop.
- To bend downward; droop.
- To slope downward; descend.
- To express polite refusal.
- To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse.
- To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together.
- To cause to fold, break down, or fall down or inward.
- To fold compactly.
- To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function.
- To fall down or inward suddenly; cave in.
DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of.
- To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
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DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
- As of stored charge or current
- A gradual decrease
- Inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- Fall in value
- Not accept as true
- To incline morally; be favorably disposed.
- To incline; tend.
- To approach or draw toward the close.
- To refuse; express refusal: as, he was invited, but declined.
- To stoop, as to an unworthy object; lower one's self; condescend.
- To sink to a lower level; sink down; hence, figuratively, to fall into an inferior or impaired condition; lose strength, vigor, character, or value; fall off; deteriorate.
- To deviate from a course or an object; turn aside; fall away; wander.
- To deviate from a right line; specifically, to deviate from a line passing through the north and south points.
- To bend or slant down; assume an inclined position; hang down; slope or trend downward; descend: as, the sun declines toward the west.
- In grammar, to inflect, as a noun or an adjective; give the case-forms of a noun or an adjective in their order: as, dominus, domini, domino, dominum, domine.
- To refuse; refuse or withhold consent to do, accept, or enter upon: as, to decline a contest; to decline an offer.
- To avoid by moving out of the way; shun; avoid in general.
- To turn aside from; deviate from.
- To cause to deviate from a straight or right course; turn aside; deflect.
- To decrease; diminish; reduce.
- To lower; degrade; debase.
- To cause to bend or slope; bend down; incline; cause to assume an inclined position; depress.
- In chess, to refuse to take a piece or pawn offered.
- The act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- To appear as if collapsing; lose strength, courage, etc.; subside; cease to assert one's self or push one's self forward: as, after that rebuke he collapsed.
- In pathology, to sink into extreme weakness or physical depression in the course of a disease.
- Figuratively— To break down; go to pieces; come to nothing; fail; become ruined: as, the project collapsed.
- To fall together, or into an irregular mass or flattened form, through loss of firm connection or rigidity and support of the parts or loss of the contents, as a building through the falling in of its sides, or an inflated bladder from escape of the air contained in it.
DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: RELATED WORDS
- Drop, Decrease, Pass up, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Wane, Fall, Diminution
- Crock up, Cave in, Break up, Break down, Founder, Fall in, Crack up, Crack, Break, Burst, Flop, Crumple, Tumble, Crash, Crumble
DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Decreases, Slowdown, Deterioration, Decrease, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Fall, Diminution
- Disintegration, Meltdown, Implosion, Give, Give way, Break up, Break down, Founder, Crack, Break, Burst, Flop, Tumble, Crash, Crumble
DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The world has been in decline ever since.
- Economic changes included a decline in local manufacturing.
- New York, its biggest intraday decline since Sept.
- There is no doubt that the city has suffered from structural decline and that state and city policies have not successfully addressed that decline.
- That difference increased sharply in recent months as the decline in the Treasury yield was greater than the decline in the mortgage rate.
- But with the decline of community participation comes the decline of trust.
- And the cause that increase is a huge decline in mortality, while birth rates were hesitant to decline in parallel with death rates.
- You must use a formal decline letter on all declines, signed by theindividual having authority to approve or decline the loan.
- Some decline, others give in and still others decline formally but accept privately.
- Can treat persons with occupational performance decline or at risk for a decline.
- In factor analysis our objective is to collapse variables, and in cluster analysis we collapse observations.
- FLOOD COLLAPSE DAMAGE PATTERNSMOST COMMON WIND COLLAPSEn Part or all of light roof is blown off and walls collapse due tolack of lateral support.
- American families, which would totally collapse our rapidly improving economy, and once again record stock markets that we have right now will also collapse.
- Ecosystem collapse Due to the destructive logging of trees, forest ecosystems are at risk of collapse, and animal habitat loss.
- Complete concentric collapse of the velum and complete lateral oropharyngeal collapse were associated with higher BMI values.
- This is seen most commonly on ultrasound as right atrial systolic collapse or right ventricular diastolic collapse.
- The Bootstrap collapse plugin is what toggles the menu expansion and collapse on smaller view ports.
- Unlike heat collapse, sickling collapse often occurs within the first half hour onfield, as during initial windsprints.
- It would allow that collapse to continue, and even accelerate the collapse.
- Your airway will either totally collapse or partially collapse.
DECLINE vs COLLAPSE: QUESTIONS
- When did building of causewayed enclosures decline?
- How fast do Fusarium oxysporum populations decline?
- Can courts decline to overrule legislative enactments?
- Is political participation and engagement in decline?
- Can ex-presidents decline Secret Service protection?
- Does bilingualism protect against cognitive decline?
- How does estrogen influence neurodegenerative decline?
- Does increased education accelerate fertility decline?
- Are neonicotinoids causing bird population decline?
- What are some common mistakes when doing decline decline bench sit-ups?
- Does Pseudomonas corrugata cause tomato plant collapse?
- Was Teotihuacan collapse caused by internal strife?
- Does quantum decoherence collapse the wave function?
- Why do people collapse without losing consciousness?
- What happens when plausibility structures collapse?
- Why does the xxlite use collapse lines instead of collapse lines?
- How did the tailings dam collapse on the Bhopal mine collapse?
- What happens when you select border-collapse value to collapse the table?
- Does progressive collapse result in disproportionate collapse?
- Did Miami building collapse in a'pancake collapse'?