D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

-ward

/(wẽrd)/ · IPA /wɚd/
01 v. i. Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.
  1. 1.
    Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.