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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Downhill \Down"hill`\, adv.
   Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Downhill \Down"hill`\, a.
   Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward."
   --Congrewe.
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4. The 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
                                                  (Trans. ).
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Thesaurus Results for Downhill:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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