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Toward the top
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uphill
Alternative clues for the word uphill
Word definitions for uphill in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an uphill battle (= one that is very difficult ) ▪ For most people losing weight is an uphill battle. an uphill slope ▪ It is harder to land on an uphill slope. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN battle ▪ Video-Taped ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from up + hill . As an adverb from c.1600. Grose's "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (1785) has "Uphills, false dice that run high."\n
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 locate up a slope or on a hill. 2 go up a slope or a hill. 3 (context by extension English) difficult or laborious. adv. 1 up a slope, towards higher ground. 2 (context by extension English) With difficulty. n. An uphill route.
Usage examples of uphill.
I particularly liked riding there, and it was a good place for Abseil, except that the uphill finish could find him out.
Being addicted to a drug is like spending your whole life attempting to ski uphill.
Then I went the other way, uphill past where my own car was parked to the bocce ball courts.
Perhaps, if women had the open privilege of selection, many a good fellow would be rescued from miserable isolation, and perhaps also many a noble woman whom chance, or a stationary position, or the inertia of the other sex, has left to bloom alone, and waste her sweetness on relations, would be the centre of a charming home, furnishing the finest spectacle seen in this uphill world --a woman exercising gracious hospitality, and radiating to a circle far beyond her home the influence of her civilizing personality.
The road wound uphill, giving a magnificent view of the coast in the distance, and presently he parked the car and trod up a narrow path to the estalagem, and since it was still warm in the afternoon sun, they had tea on its terrace.
By the time he reached the Fauces Suburae his heart was thudding, and every part of him wanted to turn uphill, ride at the gallop to his home to make sure his family was unharmed.
As Batu had ordered, the officers tried to guide their panicked charges toward the marsh, but hundreds of men were instinctively fleeing uphill, toward the reinforcements.
The routed soldiers that had been fleeing uphill stopped in their tracks and crouched in grass, fearful of putting themselves between the bowmen and their targets.
So they rode on, more slowly, uphill through the uncharted forest, where the urrearth trees tangled with blue fronds of Habara fungus and the birds were still and the crackle of the dry undergrowth was the only sound in the air.
There the twins 3 4 Ken Follett lived, in a village called Heugh, a long row of low stone houses marching uphill like a staircase.
Semper Cuni Linctus passes Simon in Grant Park looking for the uphill bike race.
It had given the meeting an optimistic tone, and the men filed out with good cheer, while he moved out still feeling the misery of the Cold, and clenched his jaw for the uphill walk in the rain.
He covered the hundred feet uphill in a near-silent panther rush, already close enough to see the sentry pivoting, eyes wide in a filthy, hairy sun-scorched face, blood coughing out between his bearded lips in a bright fan of arterial red.
The British and Hessians forded the river, and the Hessians, part of the newly arrived 7,000 led by Colonel Johann Rall, launched the uphill charge.
The street dipped sharply and then rose long uphill, and Rambo sped up it, hearing the sirens.