{
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": "d\u0259\u02c8kla\u026an",
    "listenurl": "/var/www/html/blab/mp3/dic/decline.mp3",
    "transkor": "\uc0ac\uc591\ud558\ub2e4"
  },
  "meansorg": [
    {
      "type": "Verb",
      "etymologies": "late Middle English: from Old French decliner, from Latin declinare \u2018bend down, turn aside\u2019, from de- \u2018down\u2019 + clinare \u2018to bend\u2019",
      "definitions": "(typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "get smaller"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "grow smaller"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "get less"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wane"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dwindle"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "contract"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrink"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fall off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "taper off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tail off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "peter out"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "the birth rate continued to decline"
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "Noun",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduction"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "downturn"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "downswing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lowering"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "devaluation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "depreciation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessening"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminishing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminution"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slackening"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "waning"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dwindling"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fading"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "ebb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "falling off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "abatement"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "drop"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slump"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "plunge"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tumble"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deterioration"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "degeneration"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "degradation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrinkage"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrinking"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "withering"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "atrophy"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "weakening"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "enfeeblement"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fall"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "failure"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "death"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decay"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decaying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "waning"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "declining"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "on the decline"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decaying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "crumbling"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "collapsing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "atrophying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "failing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "disappearing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "moribund"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "past its prime"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "obsolescent"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "a serious decline in bird numbers",
        "a civilization in decline"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meanskor": [
    {
      "type": "\ub3d9\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "\ud6c4\uae30 \uc911\uc138 \uc601\uc5b4: \uace0\ub300 \ud504\ub791\uc2a4\uc5b4 \ub370\uce74\ub9ac\ub108\uc5d0\uc11c, \ub77c\ud2f4\uc5b4 \ub370\uce74\ub9ac\ub108\uc5d0\uc11c, de-'down' + clinare\uc5d0\uc11c 'bended'\ub85c.",
      "definitions": "(\uc77c\ubc18\uc801\uc73c\ub85c \uc88b\uc740 \uac83\uc73c\ub85c \uac04\uc8fc\ub418\ub294 \uac83\uc5d0 \ub300\ud574) \ub354 \uc791\uc544\uc9c0\uac70\ub098, \ub354 \uc801\uac70\ub098, \ub354 \uc791\uc544\uc9c0\uac70\ub098; \uac10\uc18c\ud55c\ub2e4.",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "get smaller"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "grow smaller"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "get less"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wane"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dwindle"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "contract"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrink"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fall off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "taper off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tail off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "peter out"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\ucd9c\uc0dd\ub960\uc740 \uacc4\uc18d\ud574\uc11c \uac10\uc18c\ud588\ub2e4."
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "\uba85\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "\ud798, \uc218, \uc9c8 \ub610\ub294 \uac00\uce58\uc758 \uc810\uc9c4\uc801\uc774\uace0 \uc9c0\uc18d\uc801\uc778 \uc0c1\uc2e4",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduction"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "downturn"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "downswing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lowering"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "devaluation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "depreciation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessening"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminishing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminution"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slackening"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "waning"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dwindling"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fading"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "ebb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "falling off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "abatement"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "drop"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slump"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "plunge"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tumble"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deterioration"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "degeneration"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "degradation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrinkage"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrinking"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "withering"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "atrophy"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "weakening"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "enfeeblement"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fall"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "failure"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "death"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decay"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decaying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "waning"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "declining"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "on the decline"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decaying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "crumbling"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "collapsing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "atrophying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "failing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "disappearing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "moribund"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "past its prime"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "obsolescent"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\uc870\ub958\uc758 \uc2ec\uac01\ud55c \uac10\uc18c",
        "\uc1e0\ud1f4\ud558\uace0 \uc788\ub294 \ubb38\uba85"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "allphrases": [],
  "arrphraseskor": []
}