upthrow — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To throw or cast upwards.

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch
   • poetisch

   Beispiele

   For fifty tons of water were upthrown / By them per hour [...].

2. To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

3. To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv
   • of a mass of material

Substantiv

1. A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.

Substantiv

1. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

   Synonyme

   upheavalupliftupthrust

   Oberbegriffe

   riserisingascentascension