Thesaurus: slope

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1. v. i. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
2. v. i. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
3. a. Sloping.
4. adv. In a sloping manner.
5. v. t. To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
6. v. i. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
7. v. i. To depart; to disappear suddenly.
8. n. an elevated geological formation
9. n. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
10. v. be at an angle
11. Sloping. "Down the slope hills." Milton.A bank not steep, but gently slope. Bacon.