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adverb
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Also, down·wards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
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down from a source or beginning: As the river flows downward, it widens.
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from a past time, predecessor, or ancestor: The estate was handed downward from generation to generation.
adjective
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moving or tending to a lower place or condition.
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descending from a source or beginning.
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Downward
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| downward (ˈdaʊnwəd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | descending from a higher to a lower level, condition, position, etc |
| 2. | descending from a beginning |
| —adv | |
| 3. | a variant of downwards |
| 'downwardly | |
| —adv | |
| 'downwardness | |
| —n | |
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