Antonyms for go downhill
Grammar : Verb |
- accept
- accomplish
- achieve
- advance
- aid
- appear
- approve
- arrive
- ascend
- assist
- be born
- bear
- begin
- boost
- brave
- build
- capture
- clean
- cleanse
- clear
- combine
- comfort
- commence
- complete
- compliment
- construct
- continue
- correct
- cure
- deliver
- develop
- do well
- earn
- elevate
- enhance
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- fight
- finish
- fix
- float
- flourish
- forge
- forward
- gain
- get better
- go up
- grow
- heal
- help
- improve
- increase
- join
- laud
- live
- make happy
- mend
- merit
- moralize
- obtain
- praise
- procure
- progress
- prolong
- prosper
- purify
- put together
- raise
- reach
- rise
- say yes
- soothe
- start
- straighten
- strengthen
- succeed
- unite
- upgrade
- win
Definition of go downhill
- As in rot : verb corrode, deteriorate
- As in sink : verb deteriorate
- As in slump : verb decline, sink
- As in worsen : verb diminish, decay
- As in miscarry : verb fail to attain goal
- As in come down : verb worsen
- As in decline : verb lessen, become less
- As in degenerate : verb decay, deteriorate
- As in deteriorate : verb decay, degenerate
- As in die : verb wither, dwindle
- As in fail : verb be unsuccessful
- He'll go downhill so fast that a ship's anchor wouldn't hold him.
- Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- I think the hardest thing to do is to go downhill gracefully.
- Extract from : « Sylvia & Michael » by Compton Mackenzie
- I have always believed that it is easier to go downhill than to go up.
- Extract from : « Tenting To-night » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- And, ma'am, I know that his brother will be the ruin of John; he'll go downhill fast, as many a fine young fellow has done.
- Extract from : « For John's Sake » by Annie Frances Perram
- And then he explained to me that any fool can go uphill, but a Montenegrin is the only man who can go downhill.
- Extract from : « My Adventures as a Spy » by Robert Baden-Powell
- The moment that we began to go downhill I perceived that we were in a position of the greatest danger.
- Extract from : « The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine » by Frank R. Stockton
- He was afflicted with what the Western people called the 'swaleys,' and could not go downhill.
- Extract from : « Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made » by James D. McCabe, Jr.
- You go downhill to it from the street, and it is crowded on all sides but the front by other buildings.
- Extract from : « Letters from the Holy Land » by Elizabeth Butler
- She did not often suffer from weariness any more, but she had, without knowing it, commenced to go downhill.
- Extract from : « Comrade Yetta » by Albert Edwards
- Anyhow, after a while he began to go downhill financially, which is another way of saying he got into debt.
- Extract from : « Those Times And These » by Irvin S. Cobb
Synonyms for go downhill
- abate
- abort
- adulterate
- aggravate
- alloy
- back wrong horse
- backslide
- bate
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- be worse for wear
- become worse
- bend
- blight
- blunder
- break
- break down
- cave in
- cheapen
- collapse
- come apart at seams
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- corrode
- corrupt
- crash
- crumble
- damage
- debase
- debauch
- debilitate
- decay
- decline
- decompose
- decrease
- degenerate
- degrade
- demoralize
- deprave
- depreciate
- depress
- descend
- deteriorate
- die
- die on vine
- dilapidate
- diminish
- disappear
- disimprove
- disintegrate
- droop
- drop
- dwindle
- ease off
- ebb
- end
- exacerbate
- expire
- fade
- fade away
- fade out
- fail
- fall
- fall apart
- fall flat
- fall off
- fall short
- fall through
- fester
- fizzle
- fizzle out
- flag
- flop
- flounder
- fold
- founder
- get worse
- go astray
- go bad
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go to pieces
- go to pot
- go to ruin
- go to the dogs
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- halt
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- hunch
- impair
- injure
- keel over
- languish
- lapse
- lessen
- let up
- loll
- lose control
- lose it
- lose out
- lose power
- lose quality
- lose status
- lose value
- lower
- mar
- meet with disaster
- melt away
- miscarry
- misfire
- miss
- miss fire
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- moderate
- molder
- pass
- perish
- pervert
- peter out
- pine
- pitch
- play into
- plummet
- plunge
- putrefy
- rankle
- reach new low
- recede
- reduce
- regress
- relapse
- retrograde
- retrogress
- return
- revert
- rot
- run aground
- run down
- run low
- run out
- sag
- settle
- shrink
- sink
- skid
- slacken
- slide
- slip
- slouch
- spoil
- stain
- stop
- subside
- suffer
- taint
- topple
- tumble
- turn
- turn out badly
- undermine
- vanish
- vitiate
- wane
- warp
- waste
- waste away
- weaken
- wear away
- wilt
- wither
- worsen
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