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Underdrag Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

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Definitions
Noun
1

The tensile stress exerted by an overthrust rock mass upon overlying rocks which themselves are not under compressive thrusting stress and therefore tend to be stretched and broken by normal faulting.

Verb
1

To exert pull on the underside of (something).

See Also
stress tensile underside faulting undergo overthrust exert pull
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Rhyming Words
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