Decline and Enter

Decline

Decline verb - To show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to.

Enter is an antonym for decline.

Enter

Enter verb - To offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to.
Usage example: the club enters only five new members a year

Decline is an antonym for enter.

Nearby Words: entry, entered, entering

Common collocations

service decline service enter service
race decline race enter race
place decline place enter place
world decline world enter world
Other words: fight.

Both words in one sentence

  • As You Know Inverted. Cloud can enter a tutorial hall to brush up on the basics, but when NPCs offer to give him pointers, he will decline and instead offer to teach them.
    Source: As You Know
  • Tabletop Game / Birthright Should a ruler have their bloodline severed, the land will often enter a period of dramatic decline, suffering droughts and natural disasters.
  • Their decline was brought about by a congo line of disasters, starting with the emergence of Darkspawn following a failed attempt by Tevinter magisters to enter the fade and wrest control of the Golden City from the Maker(God, basically) himself.
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