Meaning

1 senses

  1. To travel uphill.

Examples

31 sentences

  1. Tom is facing an uphill battle.

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  2. It's usually faster to walk downhill than uphill.

    deBergab geht gewöhnlich schneller als bergauf. — Waldelfe

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  3. Tom's facing an uphill battle.

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  4. Sami's attorney faced an uphill battle.

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  5. I don't want to go uphill.

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Origin

From up + hill.

From up + hill.

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Forms

uphills, uphilling, uphilled, uphilled
Base formuphill · to uphill
3rd person singularuphills
Present participleuphilling
Past simpleuphilled
Past participleuphilled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyuphill
he, she, ituphills

Past simpleLesson

all personsuphilled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave uphilled
he, she, ithas uphilled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill uphill

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
upgradeB2upheavalC1upholdupholsterupholstery

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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