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-wards

  1. variant of -ward:

    towards; afterwards.



-wards

suffix forming adverbs

  1. indicating direction towards Compare -ward

    to sail shorewards

    a step backwards

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Spelling Note

See -ward.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -wards1

Middle English; Old English -weardes, equivalent to -weard toward ( ward ) + -es -s 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -wards1

Old English -weardes towards
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Example Sentences

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The inspection highlighted how little the East Kent review had changed things where it mattered, front-line in the wards.

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It also says the destruction of maternity wards in Gaza and embryos at a fertility clinic could indicate a strategy to prevent births among a particular group - one of the legal definitions of genocide.

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The commission also alleges that Israeli authorities have "destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group" through the "systematic destruction" of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities, including maternity hospitals and maternity wards of hospitals and Gaza's main in-vitro fertility clinic, Al-Basma IVF Centre in Gaza City.

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Mr Doran said in so far as was possible, the inquiry sought to hear from witnesses from "various categories and levels of staff who worked at Muckamore" and with "experience on different wards".

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Ms Turner moved to the new West Suffolk Hospital when it opened at Hardwick Lane in 1972 and worked in various wards.

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