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Don't accept deterioration (7)

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decline

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'deterioration' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for decline that I've seen before include "Turn down; deteriorate" , "Start to fail" , "Refuse - to take a drop" , "The classics student must often" , "Fade" .)

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