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Meaning of Inwards | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈɪnwɚdz

Definitions

Archaic form of innards.

alt-of, archaic, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

العربية إلى الداخل
Deutsch nach innen
Esperanto ene
Español adentro
Gaeilge isteach
Bahasa Indonesia intro-
Русский внутрь

Examples

“So I went up and down, and through the street, and down to the harbour-side, like a dog that has lost its master, with a strange gnawing in my inwards, and every now and then a movement of despair.”
“[A]nd the post mortem performed handily and swiftly right at the edge of the grave, so that the inwards which had caused the pig's death preceded him into the ground and he lay at last resting squarely on the cause of his own undoing.”

CEFR level

C2
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