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動詞

go backwards (三人称単数 現在形 goes backwards, 現在分詞 going backwards, 過去形 went backwards, 過去分詞 gone backwards)

1. To decline or deteriorate; to get worse. [from 16th c.]
2. (obsolete, slang) To defecate; to visit the privy.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 102, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, →OCLC:

     [O]ne day he expressed his desire of going backwards with such natural imitation of his purpose, that every body in the room firmly believed he had actually overshot himself, and fortified their nostrils accordingly.