downthrow

English

Etymology

From down +‎ throw.

Noun

downthrow (plural downthrows)

1. Defeat; ruin.
   • 1821, William Oxberry, The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote:

     These continued, led to the downthrow of the Russian expedition. The French, however, nothing daunted, pushed on, and arrived near Moscow […]

2. (geology) A depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault.

   Synonym: (obsolete) downcast

Related terms

• downthrown

Anagrams

• throw down, throw-down, throwdown