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forwards

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for·wards  (fôrwrdz)
adv.
Variant of forward.

forwards [ˈfɔːwədz], forward
adv
1. towards or at a place ahead or in advance, esp in space but also in time
2. towards the front
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.forwards - at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations)
dialect, idiom, accent - the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
2.forwards - in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"
Translations
forwards [ˈfɔːrrdz] adven avant
forward slash nbarre f oblique


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I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.
We promised that we would, and he set forwards on his journey to Town.
It is like a sheep-dog, always running backwards and forwards, poking into the most out-of-the-way corners, now climbing at a run some steep hummock of the down, and now leisurely going miles about to escape an ant-hill; and all the time (here, by the way, ends the sheep-dog) it is stopping to gossip with rillets vagabond as itself, or loitering to bedeck itself with flowers.
 
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