uphill (n.)

  1. the upward slope of a hill

    uphill (adv.)

  1. against difficulties; she was talking uphill'

  2. upward on a hill or incline; this street lay uphill'

    uphill (adj.)

  1. sloping upward

    [ Syn: acclivitous , rising ]

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