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rising slope

n. the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises [syn: upgrade, rise]

Usage examples of "rising slope".

Then before them a rising slope of the more familiar dirty red water ice would appear, striated by contour lines.

Above them the rising slope is white to the distant high horizon, beyond which black Olympus bulks like a massive world of its own.

I noticed, too, that the air in the tunnel, and this at least a mile and a half after I'd left the mine entrance, was still fresh, and I guess that that explained the upward slant of the tunnel-it was being kept deliberately near the rising slope of the mountain-side to facilitate the driving of vertical ventilation shafts.

From the wall, he looked across scorched ruins to the rising slope where Tharkas Pass began.

Instead, his reaching steps carried him along the rising slope of the rocky massif.

But it was harder and harder for her to pull herself up the rising slope.