Deplore vs Decline - What's the difference?
deplore | decline |
As verbs the difference between deplore and decline is that deplore is while decline is . As an adjective decline is declined.
deplore English
Verb
( deplor)
To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
- I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
- The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.
- I deplore not having listened to your advice.
To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
- I deplore how you treated him at the party.
- Many people deplore the actions of a corrupt government.
(obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* bewail
* condemn
Related terms
* deplorable
* deploration
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decline English
Noun
( en noun)
Downward movement, fall.(rfex)
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(rfex)
(senseid)A weakening.(rfex)
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A reduction or diminution of activity.
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- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Antonyms
* incline
Verb
( declin)
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
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To become weaker or worse.
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To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
* Thomson
- in melancholy deep, with head declined
* Spenser
- And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste / His weary wagon to the western vale.
To cause to decrease or diminish.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- You have declined his means.
* Burton
- He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- a line that declines from straightness
- conduct that declines from sound morals
* Bible, Psalms cxix. 157
- Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
To refuse, forbear.
* Massinger
- Could I decline this dreadful hour?
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To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
* Ascham
- after the first declining of a noun and a verb
(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- (Shakespeare)
(American football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.
Derived terms
* declension
* declination
Related terms
* climate
* cline
* declivity
* incline
* recline
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