Decline and Set

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Decline

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

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Set is a synonym for decline in descend topic. In some cases you can use "Set" instead the word "Decline" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: declined, declining, declination, declinable

Set

Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.

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Decline is a synonym for set in descend topic. Sometimes you can use "Decline" instead the word "Set" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as drop, reduction, go down, vanish.

Nearby Words: setup, setting

Mutual synonyms

sink
go down

How words are described

long	long decline	long set
similar	similar decline	similar set
original	original decline	original set
heavy	heavy decline	heavy set
Other adjectives: small, massive, great, huge, final, recent.

Common collocations

place	decline place	set place
world	decline world	set world

Both words in one sentence

Darrin would often ask Lilly to be his girlfriend but she'd decline as she had her heart set on singer Michael Jackson.

Source: Childhood Friend Romance
The Masked Luchador, those have been on the decline since the largest company in the country set out to unmask them all.

Source: Gang Bangers aka: Gang Banger
The main story is set 100 years later, when the British Empire is going into terminal decline, and Gladstone is considered to be a national hero shrouded in myth.

Source: Useful Notes / William Gladstone

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