Backwards is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BACKWARDS in dictionary:

VERB:
• With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
• Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
• On the back, or with the back downward.
• Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
• By way of reflection; reflexively.
• From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
• In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
ADVERB:
• in a reverse direction, also BACKWARD
• towards the rear
• at or to or toward the back or rear
• in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
ADJECTIVE:
• directed behind or to the rear
• reverting to an inferior state; retrograde
• having made less progress than is normal or expected
• (of a person) having learning difficulties
• lacking the confidence to do (something)
• (of a fielding position) behind an imaginary line passing through the stumps at the batsman's end at right angles to the wicket
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• toward the back; with the back foremost

Words related to BACKWARDS

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How to use BACKWARDS in a sentence

• Thus I travelled, backwards and forwards, four hundred miles to no purpose.
• The tail thus becomes a strong oar, driving him backwards with rapid jerks.
• But between the coffin and the door, she stood still, swaying a little, till she fell to her full length backwards and straight, as a cypress tree falls when it is cut down.
• The Emperor held a stick horizontally, and the candidates crept under it, backwards and forwards, several times.
• He placed me gently on all fours on the ground, but I immediately got up, and walked slowly backwards and forwards to let those people see I had no intent to run away.
• The incessant marching, forwards and backwards, to new positions in the blazing sun was more awful to bear than the actual fighting under the hideous fire of the German guns.
• They crossed each other, flying backwards and forwards, travelled softly and cautiously across the dark vault as though groping through every inch of it for that invisible danger.
• If a cat crossed our path we would turn backwards for a while.
• At the same time he flung all his weight forward, and the other, thrown off his balance, went over backwards and came with a hollow crash against the door.
• He owns it is very difficult when one is walking horses only for exercise, but thinks something can be done by walking them fast and occasionally making them step backwards.
• He moved backwards a space from the fire and took off his boots.
• When the inhabitants of that earth lie in bed, they turn their faces forwards or into the chamber, but not backwards or towards the wall.
• I have been employed about this, this whole day at Court, and then with Lord North, and going backwards and forwards.
• He is pretty busy here just now, but in 1867 he was constantly backwards and forwards between Paris and London trying to organize that Irish insurrection which never came off.
• This is now beginning to be perceived, and we are setting out to travel backwards.
• We made her walk backwards and forwards, both with her slippers on and also in her stocking soles.
• The animal reared and threatened to fall backwards on its rider, who appeared to be in a towering passion.
• An active spirit rejoiceth, like the sun, to run his daily course, while indolence, like the dial of Ahaz, goes backwards.
• U Saw had stepped a pace backwards, and was adjusting his grip of the reptile with the greatest care.
• To read them, they must be begun at the last letter and read backwards to the first.
• Yet even then Ferdiad shook him off, driving him backwards into the ford.
• He placed a dangling hand about his neck and, staggering under the weight, reeled backwards supporting Mr.
• The contraction of this muscle draws the corners of the mouth and the lower parts of the checks downwards and backwards.
• Ye saw him, when he in all his martial array sprang forwards and backwards, higher than he himself was tall, and if he sprang into the sea he swam like a whale.
• On the upper stone the manufacturer sits, and gently raises it with his left hand, assisted by throwing the weight of his body backwards.
• At midnight the cable led me up a high hill, so steep that the pony almost fell over backwards as I led him up the face of it.
• First one leg was kicked forwards and backwards while the other did a heavy stiff looking hop.
• He hated all women since the one he had fixed his heart on had disappointed him, and he strode backwards and forwards now in more than usual indignation against the sex.

Similar words containing BACKWARD without suffix s

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