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uphill

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up·hill  (phl)
adj.
1. Located on high or higher ground: an uphill mine entrance.
2. Going up a hill or slope: an uphill climb.
3. Marked by difficulty or strong resistance; laborious: an uphill election campaign against a popular incumbent.
adv. (phl)
1. To or toward higher ground; up a slope.
2. Against adversity; with difficulty: struggling uphill to make ends meet.
n.
An upward slope or incline.

uphill
Adjective
1. sloping or leading upwards
2. requiring a great deal of effort: an uphill struggle
Adverb
up a slope
Noun
S African a difficulty
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.uphilluphill - the upward slope of a hill          
acclivity, ascent, climb, upgrade, raise, rise - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
Adj.1.uphilluphill - sloping upward                      
ascending - moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"
Adv.1.uphill - against difficulties; "she was talking uphill"
2.uphilluphill - upward on a hill or incline; "this street lay uphill"

uphill
adjective 1. ascending, rising, upward, mounting, climbing << OPPOSITE descending
Translations
uphill [ʌpˈhɪl] adjcuesta arriba;
(fig) [task] → penoso, difícil
adv to go uphill → ir cuesta arriba
uphill [ʌpˈhɪl] adjqui monte (fig) [task] → difficile, pénible
adv [face, look] → en amont, vers l'amont; [go, move] → vers le haut, en haut;
to go uphill → monter
uphill [ˈʌpˈhɪl] adjbergaufwärts (führend) (fig) [task] → mühsam
adv [push, move] → bergaufwärts; [go] → bergauf
uphill [ʌpˈhɪl] adjin salita;
(fig) [task] → difficile
adv to go uphill → andare in salita, salire


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It is a military axiom not to advance uphill against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill.
They went through the muddy village, past threshing floors and green fields of winter rye, downhill where snow still lodged near the bridge, uphill where the clay had been liquefied by the rain, past strips of stubble land and bushes touched with green here and there, and into a birch forest growing on both sides of the road.
He kept our feet on the smoothest part of the road, and if the uphill was very long, he set the carriage wheels a little across the road, so as not to run back, and gave us a breathing.
 
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