What does decline mean?
1 : to bend or slope downward The road declines into the valley. 2 : to pass toward a lower, worse, or weaker level Her health declined. 3 : to refuse to accept, do, or agree decline an invitation decline to leave.
How do you spell decline in English?
verb (used with object), de·clined, de·clin·ing. to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it. to express inability or reluctance to accept; refuse with courtesy: to decline an invitation; to decline an offer. to cause to slope or incline downward.
Is the T silent in exactly?
In practice, yes it is virtually silent unless one makes a special effort to pronounce it. When we have a consonant cluster here /ktl/ one sound is often not heard. The linguistice term for it is “dissimilation”.