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2 definitions found 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. ``Looking downwards.'' --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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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" [syn: {down}, {downward}, {downwardly}] [ant: {up}, {up}, {up}, {up}]
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