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Definition of Forwards

1. Adverb. At or to or toward the front. "She practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"

2. Adverb. In a forward direction. "They went slowly forward in the mud"

Definition of Forwards

1. adv. Same as Forward.

Definition of Forwards

1. Adverb. Toward the front. ¹

2. Adverb. In a progressive direction. ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of forward) ¹

4. Noun. (plural of forward) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forwards

1. forward [v] - See also: forward

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forwards

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forwarns forwaste forwasted forwastes forway forwean forwear forwearied forweary forwearying

Literary usage of Forwards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"Dislocation of the Humerus forwards and upwards.—Mr. RGH BUTCHER records (Dublin Medical Press, October 20, 1852) the following well-marked case of ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Some have refined upon the palindrome, and composed verses each word of which is the same read backwards as forwards,—for instance, that of Camden— Odo ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"306) arises a little above the lingual, and ascends obliquely forwards and upwards, beneath the body of the lower jaw, to the sub- maxillary gland, ..."

4. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1921)
"wards and forwards; I had not much use for them; it might pass for a whim — a notion of mine— that I no longer cared to get shaved. ..."

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