- going or sloping towards the bottom of a hill
- a downhill path
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDownhill is used with these nouns:- gradient
- skiing
- slide
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See downhill in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe (all) downhill | be downhill all the way (informal)
- to be easy compared with what came before
- It's all downhill from here. We'll soon be finished.
- to become worse or less successful
- It's been all downhill for his career since then, with four defeats in five games.
- I started work as a journalist and it was downhill all the way for my health.
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