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adverb

Backwards, Backward adv.

With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.

Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.

On the back, or with the back downward. "Thou wilt fall backward."

Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. "Some reigns backward."

By way of reflection; reflexively.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. "The work went backward."

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. "We might have... beat them backward home."

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Etymology of 'Backwards'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Backwards" Quotes from Famous Books

... eyes, she suddenly saw a little figure moving along the path she was looking at. She rubbed her eyes and looked again—the figure had disappeared, but instead she saw clearly in the moonlight two butterflies flitting about the same path, darting first backwards, then forwards, as if inviting ...

— Hoodie • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

... Paxton!" cried Pepper, and he gave the cadet a quick shove backwards. Paxton bumped into Reff Ritter, lost his footing, and fell over the dress-suit case in the ...

— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield

... investigator wishes to study an event in the past history of man, he may most readily call up the picture from the memory of nature, but if he desires to fix the time of the incident, he will be obliged to count backwards by the motion of the heavenly bodies. For that purpose he generally uses the measure provided by the sun's precession: Each year the sun crosses the earth's equator about the twenty-first of March. Then day ...

— The Rosicrucian Mysteries • Max Heindel

... two hundred yards before the blue line saw them through the haze. The hill blazed and hissed in their faces. The massed infantry behind the guns found their marks. Men dropped right and left, sank in grey heaps or fell forward on their faces—some were knocked backwards down the slope. Yet without a pause ...

— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon

... smiling, and he looked at the grim face of the old gardener, who walked slowly backwards as he drew ...

— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn

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