Downfall
['daʊnfɔːl] or ['daʊnfɔl]
Definition
(noun.) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation.
Editor: Moore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
(n.) A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Checker: Willa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ruin, destruction, fall.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FALL]
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Examples
- After his downfall, the Republic still ruled unassailable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If fate would carry off in death or downfall all those who were timed to go, why need she trouble, why repudiate any further. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With the downfall of the Mongolian (Yuan) dynasty (1368), the dwindling opportunity of the Christian missions passed altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was wondering, in my own mind, whether the day of his downfall had come at last, and whether you were the chosen instrument for working it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life). Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Perhaps they were a little prouder in their downfall than in their prosperity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- World power or downfall was their formula; it gave their antagonists no alternative but a fight to a conclusive end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some of his generals have said so in their writings since the downfall of the Confederacy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By the second and third centuries A.D. the overtaxed and overstrained imperial machine was already staggering towards its downfall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Tracy