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downward

/ˈdaʊnwɚd/ adjective B1
  1. Moving, sloping or oriented down. · He spoke with a downward glance.
  2. Located at a lower level.
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How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 3 · B2
“I hunt among the plowed fields tonight,” and he plunged downward through the bushes, to the stream at the bottom of the valley.
The Jungle Book, p. 19 · B2
His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
The Jungle Book, p. 38 · B2
With a sob she hastily discarded her garments, put on the skimpy nightgown and sprang into bed where she burrowed face downward into the pillow and pulled the clothes over her head.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 35 · C1

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