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| English Dictionary: downwards |
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| 2 results for downwards |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- downwards
- adv
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower
level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"
Synonym(s): down, downwards, downward, downwardly
Antonym(s): up, upward, upwardly, upwards
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Downward \Down"ward\, Downwards \Down"wards\, adv. [AS.
ad[?]nweard. See {Down}, adv., and {-ward}.]
1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course;
as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or
downwards. [bd]Looking downwards.[b8] --Pope.
Their heads they downward bent. --Drayton.
2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery,
humility, disgrace, or ruin.
And downward fell into a groveling swine. --Milton.
3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from
one to another in a descending line.
A ring the county wears, That downward hath
descended in his house, From son to son, some four
or five descents. --Shak.
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