DOWNWARD

• (adverb) 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"

  synonyms : down , downwardly , downwards

• (adj.) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

  "the down staircase", "the downward course of the stream"

  synonyms : down

• (adj.) on or toward a surface regarded as a base

  "he lay face downward", "the downward pull of gravity"

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