Definition of "downslide" [downslide]

• A downward course; a decline: "a growing concern among . . . board leaders about whether the economy could be headed for a downslide” ( Andrée Brooks). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The "downslide" is much easier than the sugar crash."
• "And they've talked openly how his departure, Bill Berry's departure in 1997, really was the kind of downslide, the beginning of the end, in terms of this most recent era of not so greatness in the R.E.M. department."
• "Plus, it seems that violence in general has been on the downslide as the world tends towards greater civilization."