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Spiraling direction
Answer for the clue "Spiraling direction ", 8 letters:
downward
Alternative clues for the word downward
Word definitions for downward in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a downward/downhill slope ▪ She strode down the long downhill slope which led towards her home. a downward/upward trend (= a tendency for something to increase or decrease ) ▪ The downward trend in population growth ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: down , downwards , downwardly ] [ant: up , up , up , up ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. moving or sloping down adv. Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from down (adv.) + -ward . Old English had aduneweard in this sense. Downwards , with adverbial genitive, had a parallel in Old English ofduneweardes .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Downward \Down"ward\, Downwards \Down"wards\, adv. [AS. ad?nweard. See Down , adv., and -ward .] From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. ``Looking downwards.'' ...
Usage examples of downward.
And because from Sancto Domingo the three ships must have been seen to pass downward, and concluding that it certainly was the Admiral as he was expecting him each day, the Adelantado started then in a caravel and overtook the Admiral here.
But the balloon continued rapidly on its downward course, and, answering the barks with consoling words, the aeronaut hurried to the earth.
The aeronaut dangled weirdly head downward among the leaves and branches some yards away, and Bert only discovered him as he turned from the aeroplane.
The propeller ceased to revolve, and the aeroplane began to plunge downward with fearful velocity.
The bunches of agrimony hanging head downward inside the warm dark cave were an infusion of the dried flowers and leaves useful for bruises and injuries to internal organs, as much as they were tall slender perennials with toothed leaves and tiny yellow flowers growing on tapering spikes.
As he jumped hastily to his feet, his face very red and his mouth flowing with apologies to the alcalde for his clumsiness, he glanced downward swiftly into one of his hands, and then, with another quick gleam of cunning triumph in his eyes, he quickly slipped the hand into one of his pockets, and, taking his place in front of the barrel, faced the alcalde.
I still went among them in safety, because no jolt in the downward glide had released the increasing charge of explosive animalism that ousted the human day by day.
There is evidence of coral-like building from the aortic arch on downward, as well as throughout the jugular.
Downward they fled, From under the haunted roof, To the valley aquake with the tread Of an iron-resounding hoof, As of legions of thunderful horse Broken loose and in line tramping hard.
Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.
Saying this, he made a downward sweep of his open hand over the place where the Basha lay, and Ben Aboo shrank under it as a worm shrinks under a blow.
Ground slanted downward, begrown with bushes and dwarf trees well apart, otherwise ruddy-bare to a narrow ledge.
Even Reas the bonder himself, who had many a time flogged him for his disobedience and idleness, and who now watched him riding downward to the ships, did not recognize his former bondslave in the handsome and gaily attired young warrior.
Butter a baking-dish, put the fish into it with the flesh downward, and sprinkle each piece with salt, cayenne, mace, and flour.
Downward bound, with the ancient rungs wobbling in their sockets as I put my weight on them, I began to receive clairvoyant images from the long abandoned mine.