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• n  a downward slope or bend

• Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps .
• In the course of the play, physical declivity takes her from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair.
• One Heart Breaking "There is a passion for declivity in this world," Tennessee Williams has one of his characters say in Comino Real.

• descent
• fall
• decline
• declination
• declension
• downslope

• ascent