downhill
Speech parts
1. downhill - Noun
2. downhill - Adjective
3. downhill - Verb
4. downhill - Adverb
6. downhill - Adjective Satellite
7. Downhill - Proper noun
Meaning
Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
Declivous; descending; sloping.
Declivity; descent; slope.
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Examples
running downhill, he gained a lot of speed
your performance has been going downhill for a long time now
Another practical use is utilizing gravitational potential energy to descend (perhaps coast) downhill in transportation such as the descent of an automobile, truck, railroad train, bicycle, airplane, or fluid in a pipeline.
Alexander 2006, p. 22. Caldwell added that the P-40 was "faster downhill than almost any other aeroplane with a propeller."
Another study mining the same volume counted Anglo-American proverbs about religion to show that proverbs indicate attitudes toward religion are going downhill.
Both Striedinger and Kryenbühl must have earlier thought victory was theirs, and both had taken part in a brief victory ceremony that World Cup organizers always stage after the top-30 downhill racers complete their run.