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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: backwards adv 1: at or to or toward or the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: {back}, {backward}, {rearward}, {rearwards}] [ant: {forward}] 2: 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" [syn: {backward}]
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