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Antonyms for astern
əˈstɜrnastern

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  1. asternadverb

    stern foremost or backward

    "the steamer went astern at half speed"

    Synonyms:
    aft, abaft

  2. aft, abaft, asternadverb

    at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane

    "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"

    Synonyms:
    aft, abaft

  3. asternadverb

    (of a ship or an airplane) behind

    "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"

    Synonyms:
    aft, abaft

How to use astern in a sentence?

  1. Thomas Jefferson:

    I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

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