declinar

verb neuter

1. To decline, to lean downward. (n)

2. To decline, to sink, to be impaired, to decay, to degenerate, to abate, to diminish (de enfermedad). (n)

3. To be finished or reach the last. (n)

4. To vary from the true magnetic meridian. (Nautical) (n)

 

Va declinando el día -> it is near twilight

 

article & verb transitive

5. To decline a word by various determinations. (Grammer)

6. To challenge a judge, to transfer a cause to another tribunal: in this last sense it is always used with the word jurisdicción.