[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

downfall \down"fall`\ doun"faddl`, n.
   1. a sudden fall; a body of things falling.
      1913 webster

            those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid. --holland.
      1913 webster

            each downfall of a flood the mountains pour.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. a sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or
      happiness; destruction; ruin; as, the senator's
      unrestrained sexual escapades led to his downfall.
      1913 webster +pjc

            dire were the consequences which would follow the
            downfall of so important a place.     --motley.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

downfall
     n 1: failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
          syn: ruin, ruination
     2: the falling to earth of any form of water rain or snow or
        hail or sleet or mist syn: precipitation
     3: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the
        fall of the house of hapsburg" syn: fall ant: rise
see also:
ruin ruination precipitation fall rise 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

114 moby thesaurus words for "downfall":
   waterloo, 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, waterspout,
   whipping

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