Term: decline: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
Candidate hypernym: condition: a state at a particular time → 1
Candidate hypernym: porte: the Ottoman court in Constantinople → 0
Candidate hypernym: sorbate: a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption → 0
Candidate hypernym: mot juste: the appropriate word or expression → 0
Candidate hypernym: mahatma: (Hinduism) term of respect for a brahmin sage → 0
Candidate hypernym: cote: a small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons) → 0
Candidate hypernym: know-it-all: someone who thinks he knows everything and refuses to accept advice or information from others → 0
Candidate hypernym: laminate: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers → 0
Candidate hypernym: serbo-croat: the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet → 0
Candidate hypernym: gesneria: any plant of the genus Gesneria → 0
Candidate hypernym: designer drug: a psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs → 0