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Definitions

Noun

1. 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. uncountable, usually

Verb

1. 1
   To exert pull on the underside of (something). transitive
2. 2
   To undergo a pull from the underside. intransitive

Etymology

From under- + drag.

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