DECLINE vs LOSE: 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
- The act of losing; loss.
DECLINE vs LOSE: 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
- Place (something) where one cannot find it again
- Be set at a disadvantage
- Retreat
- Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- Fail to win
- Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- Fail to get or obtain
- Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
- Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- Allow to go out of sight
DECLINE vs LOSE: 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 operate or run slow. Used of a timepiece.
- To be defeated.
- To suffer loss.
- To cause to be damned.
- To cause to be destroyed. Usually used in the passive.
- To cause or result in the loss of.
- To become slow by (a specified amount of time). Used of a timepiece.
- To be outdistanced by.
- To elude or outdistance.
- To wander from or become ignorant of.
- To consume aimlessly; waste.
- To rid oneself of.
- To remove (oneself), as from everyday reality into a fantasy world.
- To let (oneself) become unable to find the way.
- To fail to hear, see, or understand.
- To fail to use or take advantage of.
- To fail to win; fail in.
- To be unable to keep control or allegiance of.
- To be unable to keep alive.
- To be left alone or desolate because of the death of.
- To be deprived of (something one has had).
- To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay.
DECLINE vs LOSE: 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 LOSE: 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.
- Make a loss or fail to profit
- Fail to make money in a business
- Lose sight of
- Miss from one's possessions
- Fail to keep or to maintain
- Withdraw, as from reality
- Allow to go out of sight or mind
- To succumb; fail; suffer by comparison.
- To incur forfeit in a contest; fail to win.
- To suffer loss or deprivation.
- To become abstracted or fall into a reverie; become absorbed in thought; lose consciousness, as in slumber.
- To be bewildered; have the thoughts or reason hopelessly perplexed or confused.
- To give over to ruin, disgrace, or shame: chiefly in the past participle.
- To displace, dislodge, or expel.
- To cause to miss or be deprived of; subject to the loss of: as, his slowness lost him the chance.
- To fail to profit by; miss the use, advantage, or enjoyment of; waste.
- To let slip or escape from observation, perception, etc.: as, I lost what he was saying, from inattention; we lost the ship in the fog.
- To fail to gain or win; fail to grasp or secure; miss; let slip: as, to lose an opportunity; to lose a prize, a game, or a battle.
- To fail to preserve or maintain: as, to lose one's reputation or reason; to lose credit.
- To cease to have; part with through change of condition or relations; be rid of or disengaged from.
- To be dispossessed, deprived, or bereaved of; be prevented or debarred from keeping, holding, or retaining; be parted from without wish or consent: as, to lose money by speculation; to lose blood by a wound; to lose one's hair by sickness; to lose a friend by death.
- To miss from present possession or knowledge; part with or be parted from by misadventure; fail to keep, as something that one owns, or is in charge of or concerned for, or would keep.
- To praise.
- A Middle English form of loose.
- (idiom) (lose time) To delay advancement.
- (idiom) (lose time) To operate too slowly. Used of a timepiece.
- (idiom) (lose out on) To miss (an opportunity, for example).
- (idiom) (lose it) To become less capable or proficient; decline.
- (idiom) (lose it) To become deranged or mentally disturbed.
- (idiom) (lose it) To become very angry or emotionally upset.
DECLINE vs LOSE: RELATED WORDS
- Drop, Decrease, Pass up, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Wane, Fall, Diminution
- Cede, Forfeited, Loss, Retain, Disappear, Deprive, Suffer, Squander, Fall back, Drop off, Fall behind, Recede, Mislay, Misplace, Miss
DECLINE vs LOSE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Decreases, Slowdown, Deterioration, Decrease, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Fall, Diminution
- Forfeit, Forfeited, Loss, Retain, Disappear, Deprive, Suffer, Squander, Fall back, Drop off, Fall behind, Recede, Mislay, Misplace, Miss
DECLINE vs LOSE: 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.
- It is obviously tragic enough to lose a breast due to cancer; it is a disaster to lose healthy breasts due to diagnostic error.
- When we lose someone, we lose them from all future moments, from all future holidays.
- Christians compromise with the world, if they lose their distinctive character, they lose their beneficial effect on the world.
- Any removed negative review is a good result: Even though you lose one review, you also lose the negative impact it causes.
- Tribes would continue to lose sales because, even with a credit, they would lose the tax advantage they were seeking.
- In other words, deliver value or you not only lose the plan participant, but you lose the client too.
- But to come out on top even if you lose, lose with grace, because you can still be a good person.
- This is a program for anyone that wants to lose weight, tone up, gain muscle or lose body fat.
- And when lizards lose their toes through evolution, they lose them in the reverse order.
- Worst case, you lose customer trust and maybe lose their business.
DECLINE vs LOSE: 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?
- How long do animals lose consciousness during euthanasia?
- What causes teenagers to lose motivation in school?
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- Do psyclobin mushrooms lose their potency over time?
- Do abdominal sweatbands really help you lose weight?
- Do Indians lose their temper with customer service?
- Why do pediculicides lose their effectiveness quickly?
- Why are some lose-lose situations preferable to win-losing situations?