downthrow
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Defeat; ruin.
- noun A depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault.
Similar words
throwdown downcast decay downcome defeat undoing defeature downfalling ruin downfall
Often followed by
side of to on is in was fault faults
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