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Definition of declining adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

declining

adjective
 
/dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/
 
/dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/
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  1. becoming lower, smaller or weaker
    • The declining birth rate is common to all developed countries.
    • declining sales/revenues
    • Declining health forced him to retire from business.
Idioms
somebody’s declining years
  1. (literary) the last years of somebody’s life

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