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名詞

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

   • 1955 July, “Storm Damage Repairs in Furness and West Cumberland”, in Railway Magazine, page 470:

     The geology at the site is mainly sandstone and shale overlaid with boulder clay, and is extremely confused. The ground is badly faulted, and at Micklam [Point], near Whitehaven, there is a downthrow of 480 ft.

関連する語

• downthrown

アナグラム

• throw down, throw-down, throwdown