downthrow

down +‎ throw

downthrow (plural downthrows)

1. (geology) A depression of the strata on one side of a fault
2. Ruin; defeat.
   • 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 […]

• downthrown

• throw down, throw-down, throwdown