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Definition of Downslide
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downslide
Literary usage of Downslide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1896)
"The line of waterflow at the base of the hill aiding by both chemical and mechanical
waste the cause of downslide. To these was added the nearly constant ..."
2. Directing Study: Educating for Mastery Through Creative Thinking by Harry Lloyd Miller (1922)
"By that we mean the high potentiality of childhood for uprise or downslide,
according to circumstance and opportunity. A child's mimetic powers are tuned to ..."
3. The Drug Connection in U. S.-Mexican Relations edited by Guadalupe Gonzalez, Marta Tienda (1996)
"With this economic downslide has come greater desperation on the part of already
desperate peasants. If they had little to lose years ago by raising ..."
4. The Rebirth of Europe: A Study of the Middle Age by Martyn Summerbell (1922)
"... Along their watery cheeks warm tears downslide, And then such secret speech
as this they used, While to himself each one himself accused: ' Flower of ..."
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