- towards the bottom of a hill; in a direction that goes down
- to run/walk/cycle downhill
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDownhill is used with these verbs:- slide
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Idioms
See downhill in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo downhill
- to get worse in quality, health, etc. synonym deteriorate
- Their marriage went downhill after the first child was born.
- He’s been going slowly downhill since he came out of hospital.
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