upthrow — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To throw or cast upwards.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Poetic

   Examples

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

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

   Usage

   • Transitive

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

   Usage

   • Intransitive
   • of a mass of material

Noun

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

Noun

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

   Synonyms

   upheavalupliftupthrust

   Broader terms

   riserisingascentascension