Meaning of DOWNFALL
| Pronunciation: | | 'dawn`fol
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- [n] failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- [n] a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"
- [n] the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
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| | Synonyms: | | fall, precipitation, ruin, ruination |
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| | See Also: | | anticlimax, atmospheric condition, diamond dust, failure, fine spray, finish, frost mist, frost snow, hail, ice crystal, ice needle, poudrin, rain, rainfall, sleet, snow, snow mist, snowfall, virga, weakening, weather, weather condition | |
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| | Definition: | | Downfall
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Down"fall`\, n.
1. A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid. --Holland.
Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour.
--Dryden.
2. A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or
happiness; destruction; ruin.
Dire were the consequences which would follow the
downfall of so important a place. --Motley.
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| | Related Terms: | | atrophy, bane, beating, bouleversement, brash, breakdown, burst of rain, cascade, cataract, chute, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, conquering, conquest, convulsion, crash, cropper, deathblow, debacle, decadence, declension, declination, decline, defeat, deflation, defluxion, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, deluge, descending, descension, descent, destroyer, destruction, devolution, discomfiture, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drencher, drop, dropping, drubbing, failure, fall, falling, flood, gravitation, gushing rain, headache, heavy rain, hiding, inclination, lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, nose dive, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, plash, plummeting, pounce, pour, pratfall, problem, prostration, quietus, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, rapids, ruin, ruination, sabotage, scud, smash, soaker, soaking rain, spate, spout, stoop, stumble, subdual, subduing, subjugation, subversion, swoop, tailspin, thrashing, torrent of rain, trimming, trouble, trouncing, tumble, undoing, upheaval, upset, vanquishment, waterfall, Waterloo, waterspout, whipping |
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