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(ɪnwəʳdz) also inward
adverb [ADVERB after verb]
If something moves or faces inwards, it moves or faces towards the inside or centre of something.
She pressed back against the door until it swung inwards.
Keeping your heels on the ground, turn your feet inwards.
Synonyms: inside, inward More Synonyms of inwards

inwards in British English

adverb (ˈɪnwədz) also: inward
1. 
towards the interior or middle of something
2. 
in, into, or towards the mind or spirit
plural noun (ˈɪnədz)
3.  a variant spelling of innards

inwards in American English

(ˈɪnwərdz)
adverb
inward

Examples of 'inwards' in a sentence
inwards

You go on the toe of one foot and then turn your knee inwards so your leg looks weird.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The pews all face inwards towards a central aisle, upon which stages had been built at either end.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The problem is that he spends too much of the book looking inwards rather than outwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The difference is that the gaze of discovery could now be turned inwards instead of outwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All the windows faced inwards into some sort of courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In the wake of economic trauma we often tend to look inwards rather than out.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Not engaged in the restaurant experience at all but turned inwards and dead to the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There seemed to be the beginnings of a willingness to look inwards rather than continue to blame the media.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
She now sees that she turned inwards her resentment and anger at what this process had demanded of her.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It makes for great press and soap opera but so much energy is wasted looking inwards rather than out.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Now student unions are looking inwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
She discovered only recently from watching video footage that her right foot had turned inwards as if to act as a rudder.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Work from left to right, with the needle pointing inwards towards the fabric.
Churchill, Jane (ed.) Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings (1993)
We must turn our gaze outwards, rather than inwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This meant French eyes and energies were turned inwards again.
Jane Dunn ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens (2003)
They lived under constant scrutiny - and it turned inwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The rest is torment and anguish, from which she seeks to escape by turning inwards.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
I think a songwriter needs to look inwards through the frosty glass.
The Sun (2016)
 Look outwards not inwards: focus your attention on other people and the world around you rather than dwelling on your own thoughts and feelings.
Paul Martin MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005)
Twist the hair around the fingers, curling inwards, back towards the head.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
 Look outwards not inwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
British history is the history of thousands of years of warring clans so, to survive they looked inwards, fostering unity.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
YOU stand with your back towards the pool and then throw yourself inwards towards the board, so that's scary too.
The Sun (2012)
A trout's eyes are not only set into the sides of its head but each eye is angled slightly inwards, towards the front.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)

In other languages
inwards

British English: inwards ADVERB
If something moves or faces inwards, it moves or faces towards the inside or centre of something.
She pressed back against the door until it swung inwards.
  • American English: inward
  • Brazilian Portuguese: para dentro
  • Chinese: 向内地
  • European Spanish: hacia dentro
  • French: vers l'intérieur
  • German: nach innen
  • Italian: verso l'interno
  • Japanese: 内側に向かって
  • Korean: 안쪽으로
  • European Portuguese: para dentro
  • Latin American Spanish: hacia adentro

Chinese translation of 'inwards'

inwards

(ˈɪnwədz)

adv

  1. [move, face] 向内(內) (xiàngnèi)
(adverb) 
Definition
towards the inside or middle of something
She pressed against the door until it swung inwards.
Synonyms
inside
inward

Nearby words of
inwards

  • invulnerable
  • inward
  • inwardly
  • inwards
  • iota
  • irascibility
  • irascible

Synonyms of 'inwards'

inwards

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