Failure that results in a loss of position or reputation.
A sudden decline in strength or number or importance.
The falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
1 However, the architects of state capture have also crafted their own downfall .
2 The downfall of two peoples follows in the train of personal calamity.
3 The downfall of popery in these lands would then have been inevitable.
4 He'd started this chain of events that had led to Isabelle's downfall .
5 Like the Church, the municipalities survived the downfall of the Roman empire.
6 The death of Khu-marawaih was the virtual downfall of the Tulunid dynasty.
7 Ten years after her downfall , how are we to consider Margaret Thatcher?
8 But only temporary downfall : Tapie again served as club chairman in 2001.
9 The Forbes story on Ismaik's success may have contributed to his downfall .
10 And her first task would be to bring about her lover's downfall .
11 They'd print my downfall in blacker lines than the declaration of war.
12 Does Hastings ever regret that his article led to the general's downfall ?
13 The Presbyterians of Scotland attributed to him the downfall of their Church.
14 Well performed, its results brought the downfall of British supremacy in America.
15 The friends of an insolently prosperous man are rejoiced in his downfall .
16 Make no mistake, though: Gigabyte is the architect of his own downfall .
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