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Meanings of rearwards in English

Portuguese
às avessas

At or to or toward the back or rear.

      às avessas
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      Examples for "back"
      Examples for "back"
      1
      However, Australian industry bodies and state governments back new investment in agriculture.
      Reuters
      2
      People are getting back to work, a North Sea trade source said.
      Reuters
      3
      That takes away the power to use good information to fight back.
      Wired
      4
      The government says the future will be different; they will come back.
      The Guardian
      5
      Already, this week has seen BP scale back its North Sea operation.
      The Guardian
      1
      Of course, we can't travel backward in time: nobody can do that.
      Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
      2
      You can't look backward here; you have to look to the future.
      Reuters
      3
      Unfortunately, both writers are attempting to move forward while actually facing backward.
      The Irish Times
      4
      It's a backward place, and there's no high society to speak of.
      Romancing miss bronte: a novel
      5
      Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour.
      Mockingjay
      1
      You begin with the end result and work backwards to the causes.
      The Flanders Panel
      2
      I can't believe we have gone backwards in this way, said Bond.
      The Guardian
      3
      The only forward movement on this case has come from going backwards.
      Frozen Heat
      4
      Start with the end goal and work your way backwards from there.
      The South African
      5
      I decided to work backwards, to search for light among the shadows.
      The eye of the leopard
      1
      The officers, at their intervals, rearward, neglected to stand in picturesque attitudes.
      The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
      2
      The lieutenant, carrying his wounded arm rearward, looked upon them with wonder.
      Men, Women, and Boats
      3
      Frontward was the small lake's grey water, rearward an avenue of limes.
      The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4
      4
      As if in answer to his suggestion, I felt my rearward movement arrested.
      The Great Book of Amber
      5
      The rearward end flipped ten feet in the air and thirty feet sidewise.
      Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
      Usage of rearwards in English
      1
      I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a moving mass.
      The Scalp Hunters
      2
      Previously they were painted, and had a gummy, sticky influence rearwards upon peoples clothes.
      Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
      3
      A thick and continual stream of wounded flowed rearwards.
      London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
      4
      Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal.
      The Lost World
      5
      The marvellous ceremonial slipped rearwards.
      The Roll-Call
      6
      Usually two are generated, shed rearwards from the two wing-tips and rotating relative to each other in opposite directions.
      The Irish Times
      7
      An aircraft in flight generates at least two of these wake vortices, shed rearwards from the two wing-tips as counter-rotating twins.
      The Irish Times
      8
      "That man there"-heindicates a shrinking figure hurrying rearwards-"hasjust spoilt his own score and another man's by putting two shots on the wrong target."
      The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
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      Translations for rearwards
      Rearwards through the time