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upthrow

upthrow verb: to throw or cast upwards.

Verb

upthrow (third-person singular simple present upthrows, present participle upthrowing, simple past upthrew, past participle upthrown)

  1. (archaic, poetic) To throw or cast upwards.
    • For fifty tons of water were upthrown / By them per hour [...].1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.29
  2. (transitive) To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.
  3. (intransitive) To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.

Noun

upthrow (plural upthrows)

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

upthrow meaning in Tamil

upthrow in Tamil

மல்வீச்சு

Forms of upthrow

Verb
third-person singular presentupthrows
present participleupthrowing
pastupthrew
past participleupthrown
Noun
pluralupthrows

Origin of upthrow

From Middle English upthrowen, equivalent to up- + throw.

Questions about upthrow

What does upthrow mean?
Upthrow means to throw or cast upwards.
What is upthrow in Tamil?
Upthrow in Tamil is மல்வீச்சு. See Upthrow meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upthrow?
Upthrow can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of upthrow?
The past tense of upthrow is upthrew.

Words near upthrow in the dictionary

  1. uptending
  2. uptends
  3. upter
  4. upthread
  5. upthrew
  6. upthrow
  7. upthrowing
  8. upthrown
  9. upthrows
  10. upthrust
  11. upthrusted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upthrow (page history and authors); upthrow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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