DECLINE vs PLUNGE: 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
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
- The act of plunging or submerging
- A voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
- An immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
- Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
- The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water.
- A sudden and violent pitching forward of the body, and pitching up of the hind legs, as by an unruly horse
- An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
- A sudden dive, leap, or dip into something: as, a plunge in the sea.
- A sudden or dramatic decline.
- A swim; a dip.
- The act or an instance of plunging.
- A brief swim in water
- A steep and rapid fall
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: 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 cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
- Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- Engross (oneself) fully
- Drop steeply
- Thrust or throw into
- Fall abruptly
- Dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- Cause to be immersed
- Begin with vigor
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: 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.
- Firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.
- To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
- To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in. Also used figuratively.
- To use a plunger to try to unblock (a drain, for example).
- To cast suddenly, violently, or deeply into a given state or situation.
- To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place.
- To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically.
- To move forward and downward violently.
- To slope steeply downward.
- To enter or move headlong through something.
- To devote oneself to or undertake an activity earnestly or wholeheartedly.
- To fall rapidly.
- To dive, jump, or throw oneself.
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: 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.
- To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
- To baptize by immersion.
- To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust. Also used figuratively.
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: 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.
- Devote (oneself) fully to
- In geology, to dip under the surface: used in reference to such structural features as folds where, unless the axis is perfectly horizontal, one end pitches below the horizon or general surface.
- To turn over (the telescope of a surveyor's transit or theodolite) in a vertical plane, making the object-glass pass underneath. In transiting the telescope it may pass either above or below.
- In horticulture, to sink (a pot or box containing a plant) in the ground to the rim or edge. Pots of greenhouse plants are often plunged in the open in warm weather, both for the good of the plants and for their effect in ornamentation.
- To bet recklessly; gamble for large stakes; speculate.
- To descend precipitously or vertically, as a cliff.
- To throw the body forward and the hind legs up, as an unruly horse.
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state, or condition: as, to plunge into debt or into a controversy.
- To dive, leap, or rush (into water or some fluid).
- To entangle or embarrass: used chiefly in the past participle.
- Figuratively, to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition, or action: as, plunged in grief; to plunge a nation into war.
- To cast or thrust suddenly into water or some other fluid, or into some penetrable substance; immerse; thrust: as, to plunge one's hand into the water; to plunge a dagger into one's breast.
- (idiom) (take the plunge) To begin an unfamiliar venture, especially after hesitating.
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: RELATED WORDS
- Drop, Decrease, Pass up, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Wane, Fall, Diminution
- Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Absorb, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Immerse, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Decreases, Slowdown, Deterioration, Decrease, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Fall, Diminution
- Decline, Slide, Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: 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.
- Dom was about to plunge into his back?
- Garden and plunge pool in the Manor grounds.
- Best Places to Plunge into Shopping in London.
- We need not plunge into these troubled waters.
- Relax and enjoy the usually uncrowded plunge pool.
- Look no further than the current market plunge.
- Secure desired router bit in collet, stand router upright hand plunge to approx desired depth lock plunge lock lever.
- The Milescraft Rotary Tool Plunge Attachment converts your rotary tool into a mini plunge router.
- To plunge the saw downward you depress the plunge trigger located at the top of the back handle.
- The plunge base features a generously sized plunge lever, which was easy to lock and release, and the plunge action was smooth.
DECLINE vs PLUNGE: 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?
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