decline vs regress

regress vs decline

decline and regress both are nouns.

decline and regress both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
decline	Yes	No	Yes	No
regress	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, regress is a hyponym of decline; that is, regress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than decline:

decline: grow worse
regress: get worse or fall back to a previous condition

Other hyponyms of decline include inflame, come down, sicken, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop, deprive, impoverish, fail, tumble, drop away, drop off, fall away, slip, suffer, lose, suffer, retrograde, retrogress, turn down.

decline (noun)	regress (noun)
a downward slope or bend	returning to a former state
a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current	the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
change toward something smaller or lower
a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

decline (verb)	regress (verb)
grow smaller	go back to bad behavior
grow worse	get worse or fall back to a previous condition
show unwillingness towards	go back to a previous state
inflect for number, gender, case, etc.	go back to a statistical means
go down
fall in value
not accept as true

Difference between decline and regress

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