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Backwards Move Back Direction Facing Diver Flipped Water

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If you move or look b________, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing .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.
word backwards
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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

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1

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