Decline and Fight off

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

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Fight off and decline are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fight off" instead a verb "Decline".

Fight off verb - Force or drive back.

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Decline and fight off are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decline" instead a verb "Fight off".

In Lexx, the Brunnen-G had no weapons to fight off the Divine Shadow thanks to their civilization's decline.

Source: Break Out the Museum Piece
In the original Japanese, they want her to become their bride and produce offspring that will help them fight off a "new god", and when she and her friends... decline, they decide to return to their "former god" and bide their time.

Source: Anime / Digimon Adventure 02

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