Meaning

2 senses

  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.

Origin

From down + throw.

From down + throw.

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Forms

plural: downthrows
Singulardownthrow
Pluraldownthrows

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
downcast

Word family

1 related words
Relateddownthrown

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
downstairsB1downstreamdowntimedowntownA2

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