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Upthrow

noun
1.
(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building).  Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrust.






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"Upthrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... buried seeds upthrow Fruits and flowers; if flower and fruit By their nature fitly show What the seeds ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce upthrow,— The late-sprung mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. Thou shouldst have seen from Sumter's wall The star-flag of the Union fall, And armed Rebellion pressing on The broken lines of Washington! No stronger voice than thine had ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various



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