downhill

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downhill - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Downhill \Down"hill`\, n.
     Declivity; descent; slope.
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           On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. --Du Bartas
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  Downhill \Down"hill`\, adv.
     Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
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  Downhill \Down"hill`\, a.
     Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward."
     --Congrewe.
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downhill - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  downhill
      adv 1: toward a lower or inferior state; "your performance has
             been going downhill for a long time now"
      2: toward the bottom of a hill; "running downhill, he gained a
         lot of speed"
      adj 1: sloping down rather steeply [syn: declivitous,
             downhill, downward-sloping]
      n 1: the downward slope of a hill
      2: a ski race down a trail

downhill - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "downhill":
     adown, aslant, aslantwise, aslope, at a slant, atilt, below,
     collapsing, deciduous, decline, declined, declining, declivate,
     declivitous, declivity, declivous, decurrent, descendant,
     descending, descent, dip, dipping, down, down south, down-reaching,
     downcoming, downfalling, downgate, downgoing, downgrade, downline,
     downright, downsinking, downstairs, downstream, downstreet,
     downtown, downward, downwards, downwith, drooping, drop, dropping,
     fall, falling, falling-off, hang, hanging, off plumb,
     on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummeting, plunging,
     rakingly, sagging, setting, sinking, slantingly, slantways,
     slantwise, slaunchways, slopeways, slopingly, submerging,
     subsiding, tipsily, tottering, tumbledown, upgrade, uphill