declining (?.)
- abjuration
- abjurement
- abnegation
- aging
- chucking
- chucking out
- collapsing
- coming apart
- contempt
- contractive
- contradiction
- cracking
- crumbling
- decadent
- deciduous
- declension
- declination
- declinature
- declined
- declivate
- declivitous
- declivous
- decreasing
- decrescendo
- decrescent
- decurrent
- degenerate
- deliquescent
- denial
- deprivation
- descendant
- descending
- despisal
- despising
- deteriorating
- diminishing
- diminuendo
- dipping
- disagreement
- disallowance
- disapproval
- discard
- disclaimer
- disclamation
- discounting
- disintegrating
- dismissal
- disobedience
- disownment
- disregard
- dissent
- doting
- down
- down-reaching
- downcoming
- downfalling
- downgoing
- downgrade
- downhill
- downsinking
- downward
- draining
- drooping
- dropping
- dwindling
- dying
- ebbing
- effete
- exception
- exclusion
- fading
- failing
- falling
- flagging
- fragmenting
- getting on
- going to pieces
- growing old
- holding back
- ignoring
- languishing
- lessening
- marcescent
- nay
- negation
- negative
- negative answer
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- nonapproval
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- nonconsideration
- nonobservance
- on the descendant
- on the downgrade
- on the wane
- passing by
- pining
- plummeting
- plunging
- putting away
- putting out
- rebuff
- recantation
- receding
- reductive
- refusal
- regressive
- rejection
- renouncement
- repudiation
- repulse
- retention
- retiring
- retreating
- retrograde
- retrogressive
- sagging
- scouting
- senescent
- setting
- shrinking
- shriveling
- sinking
- sliding
- slipping
- slumping
- spurning
- submerging
- subsiding
- tabetic
- throwing out
- thumbs-down
- tottering
- tumbledown
- turndown
- turning out
- unwillingness
- waning
- wasting
- wilting
- withering
- withholding
- worsening
