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down·hill
 downhill
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- pronunciation:
- daUn
hIl
- parts of speech:
- adverb, adjective
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adverb |
| definition 1: |
If you walk downhill, you walk in a downward direction. If your friend's house is at the top of a hill and your house is at the bottom, you have to walk downhill when you go home from your friend's house.
It is much easier to ride your bike downhill than riding it up to the top.You can go really fast when you ski downhill.The ball rolled downhill and landed in a ditch.- antonyms:
- uphill
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| definition 2: |
If something goes downhill, it gets bad little by little and keeps getting worse.
The store was successful until two years ago. Then the business started to go downhill. Finally, it closed last month.The team won the first two games, but then everything went downhill and they finished last.Once Alex stopped practicing the piano, his playing went downhill. |
| related words: |
down |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
A downhill skier is a skier who skis down slopes or mountains and not across flat land. A downhill race is a race in which competitors race down a slope and not across flat land or up a hill.
We hiked on a downhill trail.A downhill bike is designed to operate well when riding down a hill. |
| definition 2: |
If we say that something is "all downhill," we mean that the difficult part is over. It's easy now.
After we beat the toughest teams in the competition, it was all downhill from there and we won easily. |
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