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earthward /ˈəːθwəd /(also earthwards) adverb & adjectiveTowards the earth: [as adverb]: when his parachute failed to open he fell earthward at 120 mph [as adjective]: the bird’s earthward plummet...- The ball headed earthward toward me and knocked my cap off back over my head with a quick knock to the bill.
- But as they plummet earthwards, he sees a crowded school playground just next to the barracks.
- Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy musculature for all the world to look upon.
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