underdrag

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noun

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.

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Meanings

noununderdrag (usually uncountable, plural underdrags)

plural underdrags

  1. uncountableusuallygeographyThe 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.
verbunderdrag (third-person singular simple present underdrags, present participle underdragging, simple past and past participle underdragged)

present singular third person underdrags · participle present underdragging · participle past underdragged · past underdragged

  1. transitiveTo exert pull on the underside of (something).
  2. intransitiveTo undergo a pull from the underside.

Origin

From under- + drag.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

underdrag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underdrag

MLA

“underdrag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underdrag. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underdrag,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underdrag.

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