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decline

How many syllables in decline?

  2 syllables

Divide decline into syllables:   de-cline
Stressed syllable in decline:   de-cline
How to pronounce decline:   dih-klahyn
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Synonyms for decline


1 syllable
  • cut
  • flag
  • slump
  • drop
  • shrink
  • wane
2 syllables
  • abate
  • decrease
  • downturn
  • forgo
  • recede
  • reject
  • shrinkage
  • standstill
  • wither
  • decay
  • descent
  • dwindle
  • rebuff
  • refuse
  • relapse
  • stagnate
  • weaken
3 syllables
4 syllables
    5 syllables
    6 syllables
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      What rhymes with decline

      1 syllable
      • brine
      • dine
      • fine
      • Jain
      • Kline
      • lyne
      • nine
      • prine
      • Quine
      • Rhine
      • shine
      • sign
      • spine
      • Stein
      • swine
      • thine
      • trine
      • tyne
      • vine
      • wine
      • cline
      • dyne
      • hine
      • Klein
      • line
      • mine
      • pine
      • pyne
      • Rhein
      • rine
      • shrine
      • sine
      • spline
      • stine
      • thein
      • tine
      • twine
      • tyned
      • whine
      • wyne
      2 syllables
      • affine
      • align
      • alkyne
      • assign
      • baseline
      • benign
      • bloodline
      • bovine
      • breadline
      • byline
      • caprine
      • cervine
      • coastline
      • compline
      • confine
      • corvine
      • dateline
      • define
      • divine
      • dragline
      • dynel
      • Einstein
      • entwine
      • ethyne
      • ferine
      • gold mine
      • guideline
      • hard-line
      • hemline
      • Holbein
      • incline
      • jawline
      • lang syne
      • lifeline
      • longline
      • mainline
      • midline
      • moonshine
      • off-line
      • opine
      • outshine
      • Pauline
      • pipeline
      • pontine
      • potline
      • punch line
      • recline
      • refine
      • repine
      • roofline
      • saline
      • shoreline
      • skyline
      • streamline
      • subline
      • supine
      • taurine
      • touchline
      • tramline
      • trotline
      • tumpline
      • untwine
      • vulpine
      • white line
      • yard line
      • airline
      • aline
      • alpine
      • balkline
      • beeline
      • Bernstein
      • blue line
      • bowline
      • buntline
      • canine
      • carbine
      • clothesline
      • combine
      • condign
      • consign
      • cutline
      • deadline
      • design
      • divined
      • driveline
      • earthshine
      • enshrine
      • equine
      • feline
      • frontline
      • grapevine
      • hairline
      • headline
      • hipline
      • hotline
      • indign
      • landline
      • lead line
      • limine
      • lupine
      • malign
      • moline
      • neckline
      • online
      • outline
      • ovine
      • Petrine
      • piscine
      • porcine
      • propine
      • quinine
      • redline
      • reline
      • resign
      • Sabine
      • setline
      • sideline
      • strandline
      • strychnine
      • sunshine
      • syncline
      • topline
      • towline
      • trephine
      • truckline
      • turbine
      • ursine
      • waistline
      • woodbine
      3 syllables
      • disincline
      • GYN
      • mineable
      • reassign
      • redefine
      4 syllables
      5 syllables
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