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plural downthrows
Defeat; ruin. quotations examples
These continued, led to the downthrow of the Russian expedition. The French, however, nothing daunted, pushed on, and arrived near Moscow […]
1821, William Oxberry, The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote
(geology) A depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault.