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Adjective

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sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)

  1. Having a slope.
    a sloping roof
    • 1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27:
      The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return

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Verb

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sloping

  1. present participle and gerund of slope

Noun

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sloping (plural slopings)

  1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

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Etymology

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From slopen +‎ -ing.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsloː.pɪŋ/
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  • Hyphenation: slo‧ping

Noun

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sloping f (plural slopingen)

  1. demolition, the act or process of demolishing