[
  {
    "word": "decline",
    "phonetic": "/d\u026a\u02c8kla\u026an/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/d\u026a\u02c8kla\u026an/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/decline-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1762653",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Downward movement, fall.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A weakening.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A reduction or diminution of activity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The act of declining or refusing something.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "incline"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To move downwards, to fall, to drop.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To become weaker or worse.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "My health declined in winter."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To cause to decrease or diminish.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a line that declines from straightness"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To refuse, forbear.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decline"
    ]
  }
]