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Downhill
Downhill
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1.
Declivous
; descending; sloping.
2. A downhill
greensward
.
Downhill
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1.
Declivity
; descent; slope.
2. And though
tis
downhill all.
Downhill
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Declivous
; descending; sloping.
Downhill
[Adverb]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
Downhill
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Declivity
; descent; slope.
Obliquity
Roget’s Thesaurus §217
N.
obliquity
, inclination, slope,
slant
,
crookedness
, slopeness,
leaning
,
bevel
,
tilt
,
bias
, list, twist,
swag
,
cant
,
lurch
,
distortion
, bend, tower of pisa,
acclivity
, rise,
ascent
,
gradient
, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank,
declivity
,
downhill
, dip, fall, devexity|, gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent, shelving beach,
talus
, monagne russe, facilis descensus averni
V.
intersect
, lack parallelism
Descent
Roget’s Thesaurus §306
N.
descent,
descension
, # declension, declination, fall, falling,
slump
, drop,
plunge
,
plummet
,
cadence
,
subsidence
,
collapse
,
lapse
,
downfall
,
tumble
, slip,
tilt
,
trip
,
lurch
,
cropper
, culbute,
titubation
,
stumble
, fate of icarus,
avalanche
,
debacle
,
landslip
,
landslide
,
declivity
, dip, hill,
rappel
V.
descend, go down, drop down, come down, fall,
gravitate
, drop, slip, slide,
rappel
, settle,
plunge
,
plummet
,
crash
, decline, set, sink,
droop
, come down a peg,
slump
, dismount,
alight
, light, get down,
swoop
,
stoop
, fall prostrate, precipitate oneself, let fall,
tumble
,
trip
,
stumble
,
titubate
,
lurch
, pitch,
swag
,
topple
, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down,
tilt
,
sprawl
, plump down, come down a cropper
Adj.
descending,
descendent
,
decurrent
,
decursive
,
labent
,
deciduous
, nodding to its fall
Adv.
downhill
, downwards
Phr.
the bottom fell out
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