(also downward especially in AmE) adverb
towards the ground or towards a lower level:
She was lying face downwards on the grass. * The garden sloped gently downwards to the river. * It was a policy welcomed by world leaders from the US president downwards. * Nine per cent of commuters used public transport in 1995 and the trend is downwards. * Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards (= it has been predicted that the disease will not spread as fast as earlier predictions suggested).
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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