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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈdaʊnwə^rdz/

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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

downwards /ˈdaʊnwədz/, downward adv

from a higher to a lower place, level, etc
from an earlier time or source to a later: from the Tudors downwards

'downwards' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

anti-roll bar - bibcock - bow - cata- - chop - creep - decline - deep - depth - descendent - descent - devolution - dip - dipper - down - downcast - downhill - downward - droopy - duck - fall - flutter - flying buttress - frogmarch - gradient - grill - grovel - grow - hanging - harp - kick-start - nose dive - over- - pendulous - pile - pitch - pronate - prone - prostrate - pterygoid process - revolute - sink - sound - spike - taproot - transpose - up-and-down - whole-tone scale - à bas

🗣️Forum discussions with the word(s) "downwards" in the title:

A bottle is lying down/rests downwards?
At some places the road steeply slop downwards.
can be read downwards to form a word or words
count downwards
downward or downwards
downwards
Downwards instead of towards
downwards of (a third)
from the 16th century downwards?
gave the chain linked to the boulder 10 distinct pulls downwards
give my pen several jolts/shook it downwards several times
Inner circle downwards?
It would be better if the camera had directed a little more downwards.
Narrow downwards
Risk situation drifted downwards
rostrum curved downwards
"Stairs" and the word "decrease," both are going downwards
the trend is downwards / downward
They cast their gaze downwards
tightened/ stressed upwards/ stressed downwards
tilt downwards
to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
What does "spreading rapidly downwards" means?
When you are nude from the waist downwards.

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