adverb. In, to, or toward a lower place, level, or position.

adverb. Toward a lower position in a hierarchy or on a socioeconomic scale.

adverb. Toward the feet or lower parts.

adverb. Toward a lower amount, degree, or rank.

adverb. From a prior source or earlier time.

adjective. Directed toward a lower place or position.

Moving or tending from a higher to a lower place, condition, or state; taking a descending direction, literally or figuratively: as, the downward course of a mountain path, or of a drunkard.

Descending from a head, origin, or source: as, the downward course of a river; a downward tracing of records.

From a higher to a lower place, condition, or state.

In a course or direction from a head, origin, source, or remoter point in space or in time: as, water flows downward toward the sea; to trace successive generations downward from the earliest records.

In the lower parts; as regards the lower parts or extremities.

adverb. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course.

adverb. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.

adverb. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.

adjective. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.

adjective. Descending from a head, origin, or source.

adjective. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected.

adverb. toward a lower level, either in space or in a hierarchy or an amount

adjective. moving or sloping down

adjective. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

adjective. on or toward a surface regarded as a base

adverb. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

"Inzko added these developments are the latest in what he called a downward trend in political stability in Bosnia for the past five years."

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