sloping

1. 1
   adjective

   Tilted to one side, going up or down instead of being flat.

   Like the side of a hill that tilts up or down instead of being flat.

   The house was built on a sloping hill, so the back stood lower than the front.

   Children love to roll down the sloping lawn in the park.

   Similarslanting, inclined, angled, pitched, tilted

   Oppositeflat, level, horizontal

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of slope. Use this form for the action happening right now.

   The ground was sloping steeply toward the river.

   She could feel the floor sloping under her feet.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   The way something is set at an angle, going up or down.

   Like the tilt of a slide at the playground.

   The slow sloping of the path made the walk easy on our legs.

   You can see the sloping of the roof clearly from the street.

   Similarincline, slant, inclination, gradient, fall

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