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headwards

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adverb

  1. backwards beyond the original source

    a river erodes headwards

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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As the main valley deepens, the tributary stream-beds are deepened also, and gradually cut their way headwards, enlarging the area whence they draw their supplies.

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Sometimes he goes feetwards and sometimes he goes headwards and sometimes he turns a somersault in the air before he touches the water.

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Now he puts out his hands, like this, and he calls out, “This time I’m going to take a headwards dive!â€

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Along the banks of the trunk streams short gullies are slowly lengthening headwards, like growing twigs which are sometime to become large branches.

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