Meaning of క్షీణత in English

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
To waste away; to dwindle.
To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
The act of debasing or the state of being debased.
Debonairness.
The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.
Alt. of Decadency
Decaying; deteriorating.
A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence."
Departure from a camp; a marching off.
A tithing.
A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.
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.
Belonging to declension.
Declining; sloping.
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.
Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
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 of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
He who declines or rejects.
of Declivity
Alt. of Declivous
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 act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.
Act of deconcentrating.
Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
Decrepitude.
The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
A decrease.
Act of lying down; decumbence.
Alt. of Decumbency
The act or posture of lying down.
The act of running down; a lapse.
A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.
A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.
The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
Degeneracy.
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 believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
of Deglutinate
The act of ungluing.
The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
Pertaining to deglutition.
Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.
Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
To taste.
Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.
To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.
Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.
The act of depriving of reason; madness.
A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
The state of being demisable.
Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.
Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
To look demurely.
The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
Feeding.
Loss; destruction.
Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.
Act of taking up plants from beds.
The act of depleting or emptying.
the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Able or fitted to deplete.
A substance used to deplete.
Serving to deplete.
The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
Depravity.
Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
A catching; discovery.
Serving to depress.
Low estimation; disesteem; contempt.
The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Worse state or quality; inferiority.
The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground.
A wearing off or away.
The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
A fight; contest.
The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.
The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Leave to depart; a dismissing.
Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.
A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
The quality or state of being downy.
The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling.
Father.
A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
Hence, any weight.
A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
The quality or state of being tardy.