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backwards B1

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adverbIf you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing .The diver flipped over backwards into the water.He took two steps backward.Bess glanced backwards.Keeping your back straight, swing one leg backwards.Without so much as a backwards glance, he steered her towards the car.If you do something backwards, you do it in the opposite way to the usual way.He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards.You use backwards to indicate that something changes or develops in a way that is not an improvement, but is a return to old ideas or methods .Greater government intervention in businesses would represent a step backwards....the blaming that keeps us looking backward.

word	backwards
definition	adverb If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing . The diver flipped over backwards into the water. He took two steps backward. Bess glanced backwards. Keeping your back straight, swing one leg backwards. Without so much as a backwards glance, he steered her towards the car. If you do something backwards, you do it in the opposite way to the usual way. He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards. You use backwards to indicate that something changes or develops in a way that is not an improvement, but is a return to old ideas or methods . Greater government intervention in businesses would represent a step backwards. ...the blaming that keeps us looking backward.
cefr-level	B1

Backwards Move Back Adverb Direction Facing Diver Flipped