downhill
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- adverb
- /ˈdaʊnˌhɪl/
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- It's rolling downhill.
- walk downhill
- move downhill
- flow downhill
You're trying to go downhill, so you take as fast as you can.
- You're trying to go downhill, so you take as fast as you can.
- And for me, look, Alan, water rolls downhill.
- You can't, you cannot think consciously while running downhill.
- So it's a single speed with a big chain ring up front, small and you can't go at top speed downhill, but you have to go hard uphill.
- It tends to go uphill, but if it's going downhill, it tends to hesitate.
- You went like downhill like this, downhill like this, downhill like this.
- They're like stacked back and then they have those five DBS that are just so fast getting downhill.
- So if so, if you're, if you die face first downhill, then then it's going to then a lot of the bloods going to run to the face.
- When stuff going downhill, you put your little kayak on top of the stuff going downhill and you go whee.
Examples
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We go fast downhill!
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Let's go downhill!
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We must be... a couple of thousand feet downhill by now.
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He'll go downhill to the river.
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Okay, we gotta get downhill.
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From here it's all downhill for the next few days until we get back to Kathmandu.
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Our Marian came off her bike going downhill in the country.
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The trail leads downhill toward the picturesque valley below.
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As we ran downhill, the wind rushed past us, making us feel exhilarated.
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The kids loved riding their bikes downhill after school every day.
Synonyms
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Toward a lower place or level
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Toward a lower place, level, or position
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In a direction from a higher level to a lower level
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Etymology
Downhill comes from down ('toward a lower place') plus hill, so to go downhill means to move in the direction of the bottom of a slope, like when you ride a bike or when water flows.