backwards

/ ˈbækwədz /

adverb

1. towards the rear

2. with the back foremost

3. in the reverse of usual order or direction

4. to or towards the past

5. into a worse state

   the patient was slipping backwards

6. towards the point of origin

7. informal,  to make a special effort, esp in order to please

8. informal,  to understand completely

Example Sentences

Celtic passed backwards, hesitant and unthreatening having just been knocked out of the Champions League by Kairat Almaty.

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It was, he said, an "unprecedented and deeply worrying step backwards for women's rights and human rights in Europe".

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One of the group “plunged her tusks up to the gums in the body of my Land-Rover . . . again she charged, and the Land-Rover was carried backwards at high speed for thirty-five yards.”

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I’ve come way too far to go backwards, and I’m not just a puppet anymore.

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Many fans' groups feel that they are not being listened to and that the club is going backwards, a feeling that has driven the fans to the point of mutiny.

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Related Words

• back 
• backward