backwards : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: backwards	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
backwards adv at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" Synonym(s): back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards Antonym(s): forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward" Synonym(s): backward, backwards
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. + -ward.] 1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. --Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. --Locke. 5. By way of reflection; reflexively. --Sir J. Davies. 6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. --Dryden. 7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. --Shak.