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Meanings of downwards in English

Portuguese
juso

Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.

juso
Usage of downwards in English
1
They found that the animals simply glided downwards without moving a muscle.
BBC
2
The good news was offset after the April numbers were revised downwards.
Reuters
3
Meanwhile, Twitter's stock price has been meandering downwards for the past year.
Wired
4
Keep your fingers in his throat; the other hand creeps warily downwards.
Idolatry: A Romance
5
I think the target will, ultimately over time, be revised downwards slightly.
Radio NZ
6
While Labour's vote collapsed, the Conservative vote has been gently drifting downwards.
The Guardian
7
For 2008, Fiat missed several targets, including some it had revised downwards.
Reuters
8
They carried on downwards, negotiating flight after flight of precipitous stone steps.
The call of kerberos: twilight of kerberos
9
I think the industrious GeekDad community could design that cost downwards significantly.
Wired
10
Two other radicles of the cabbage travelled downwards in almost rectilinear courses.
The Power of Movement in Plants
11
But by and large, the trend would be downwards from this month.
Reuters
12
All the Bees died in the shaft, some turned upwards, others downwards.
Bramble-Bees and Others
13
In every house, from the palace downwards, the eldest child lay dead.
Mother Stories from the Old Testament / A Book of the Best Stori...
14
The air is once again displaced downwards, and the cycle begins anew.
Things To Make
15
I pointed downwards to where the creek-riven marshes merged into the sands.
The Betrayal
16
The post-Chelsea trend has been downwards and the statistics bear that out.
The Guardian
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Translations for downwards
Downwards through the time
Downwards across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common