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Meaning of পতন in English

  • To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
  • To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
  • A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
  • A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
  • Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
  • 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.
  • The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
  • That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
  • A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  • The thing degenerated.
  • A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
  • A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
  • The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.
  • One who, or that which, spills.
  • A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

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