Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Up into the air; upward: as, “soar airwards again,” Thackeray, Shabby-Genteel Story, iv.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb rare Toward the air; upward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Toward the air; upward.

Etymologies

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air +‎ -ward

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Examples

  • Ray lurched in that moment, saving his own life, for surely the gunner was shooting right to left, semiauto, had missed twice, hitting goat, the huge .50-caliber detonations unleashing waves of energy that flipped other goats airward and splattered them, then scoring a hard one that took Skelton solid, and then pivoted the huge weapon on the bipod another half a millimeter to plant one in Ray.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Ray lurched in that moment, saving his own life, for surely the gunner was shooting right to left, semiauto, had missed twice, hitting goat, the huge .50-caliber detonations unleashing waves of energy that flipped other goats airward and splattered them, then scoring a hard one that took Skelton solid, and then pivoted the huge weapon on the bipod another half a millimeter to plant one in Ray.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Monstrous, contorted shapes -- those Monterey cypresses look like creatures born underground, who, at the price of almost unbearable torture, have torn through the earth's crust, thrusting and twisting themselves airward.

    The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

  • Evidently they, too, had been so much surprised by the unprecedented action of the stranger that they had not even challenged; but that they had no thought to let the thing go unnoticed was quickly evidenced by the skirring of motors upon the landing-stage and the quick shooting airward of a long-lined patrol boat.

    Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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