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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 broadside, crabwise, edgeways [chiefly British], edgewise, sidewise

Related Words aslant, indirectly, obliquely; laterally, sideward (or sidewards)

Near Antonyms dead, direct, right, straight

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