Definitions For Overthrust

Adjective

(not comparable) (geology) Belonging to earlier stratum, strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.

Verb

past2=overthrust (geology, intransitive) Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.

Noun

OVERTHRUST (plural OVERTHRUSTs) (geology, ambitransitive) A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.

Etymology

over + thrust

Is Overthrust a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
16
Words with Friends
17

The word Overthrust is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

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