EGAVE

downthrow

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Defeat; ruin.
  2. 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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