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eastwards
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial eastwards has 1 sense
- eastwards(r = adv.all) eastward - toward the east; "they migrated eastward to Sweden"
CIDE DICTIONARY
eastwards, adv.
Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York. [1913 Webster]
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