declining

To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

“The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.”

To become weaker or worse.

“My health declined in winter.”

To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

To cause to decrease or diminish.

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

“a line that declines from straightness”

To refuse, forbear.

“On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.”

(grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.

(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

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.”

Decline