Adverbial upwards has 2 senses
  1. up, upwards, upward, upwardly - spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"
    Antonyms: down, downwards, downward, downwardly
  2. up, upwards, upward - to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
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