English Explanatory Dictionary

downthrow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Defeat; ruin.
  2. A depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault.

Word forms

downthrow downthrows

Etymology

From down + throw.

Synonyms

downcast

Related words

downthrown
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