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decline
/dɪˈklaɪn/ verbDefinition
REFUSE [I, T] formal › If you decline something, you refuse it politely: She declined his offer of a lift. [+ to do sth] He declined to comment.
BECOME LESS [I] › to become less in amount, importance, quality, or strength: Sales of records have declined steadily.
(Definition of decline verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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