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broadside

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of broadside

with one side faced forward

  • one car hit the other broadside and crushed the passenger door
Synonyms of broadside

crabwise, edgeways [chiefly British], edgewise, sideways, sidewise
Words Related to broadside

aslant, indirectly, obliquely

laterally, sideward (or sidewards)
Near Antonyms of broadside

dead, direct, right, straight

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