Local English word record

downwards

adverb · 1 sense

spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

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Examples

  • don't fall down
  • rode the lift up and skied down
  • prices plunged downward

Word relationships

Synonyms

down, downward, downwardly

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