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  • 1go into a decline — index languish Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Decline of the Roman Empire — This article is about the historiography of the decline of the Roman Empire. For a description of events, see Roman Empire. For the book by Edward Gibbon, see The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. For the film, see The Fall of… …

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  • 3decline — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ catastrophic, considerable, dramatic, drastic, large, major, marked, massive, serious, severe …

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  • 4decline */*/*/ — I UK [dɪˈklaɪn] / US verb Word forms decline : present tense I/you/we/they decline he/she/it declines present participle declining past tense declined past participle declined 1) [intransitive] to become less or worse The number of people buying… …

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  • 5decline — de|cline1 [ dı klaın ] verb *** 1. ) intransitive to become less or worse: The number of people buying their own homes has declined. In many cases living standards are declining. decline steadily/sharply/rapidly/dramatically: Stock prices… …

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  • 6decline — I n. 1) to go into, suffer a decline 2) a gradual; sharp; steady; steep decline 3) a decline in (a decline in trade) 4) on the decline II v. (E) she declined to address the delegates * * * [dɪ klaɪn] sharp steady …

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  • 7decline — decliner, n. /di kluyn /, v., declined, declining, n. v.t. 1. to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it. 2. to express inability or reluctance to accept; refuse with courtesy: to decline …

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  • 8Decline and abolition of the poor law system — The Decline and abolition of the Poor law system in England and Wales can be traced to around 1870 when the share of population on poor relief began to fall into sharp decline which continued until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.[1]… …

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  • 9Decline and Fall — [Decline and Fall] the first novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. It was written in 1928 and is about the comic troubles of a quiet young man who has to leave ↑Oxford University and gets a job at a very bad ↑public school. The rich mother of …

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  • 10Decline of Buddhism in India — Part of a series on Buddhism Outline · Portal History Timeline · Councils …

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