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From down +‎ throw.

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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

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