Meaning of زوال in English

Alt. of Decadency
A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence."
Departure from a camp; a marching off.
A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.
The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
Rehearsing a word as declined.
The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
To cause to decrease or diminish.
To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
A descending surface; a sloping place.
The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Alt. of Decumbency
The act or posture of lying down.
Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.
A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
An exception.
The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.