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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

uphill
    adv 1: against difficulties; "she was talking uphill"
    2: upward on a hill or incline; "this street lay uphill"
    adj 1: sloping upward [syn: acclivitous, rising, uphill]
    n 1: the upward slope of a hill

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Uphill \Up*hill"\, adv.
   Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Uphill \Up"hill`\, a.
   1. Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.
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   2. Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
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Thesaurus Results for uphill:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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