downfall

downfall
n
1. collapse, debacle, breakdown, break up; drop, fall, descent, crash, smash, tailspin or tail spin, nose dive; defeat, overthrow, overturn, labefaction, coup d’etat; undoing, ruin, ruination; debasement, abasement, degradation; shame, disgrace, humiliation, mortification.
2. mistake, blunder, botch, bungle, error, Inf. slipup; transgression, dereliction, dereliction of duty, misconduct, misdeed; false step, wrong step, misstep, false move, wrong move, bad move, trip, stumble; offense, peccadillo, oversight, omission; leak, slip, lapse, lapsus; All Sl. boner, goof, dumb trick, fool mistake, screw-up, foul-up, louse-up.
3. downpour, downrush, spate, cascade, flood, deluge; cloudburst, thunderstorm, thundershower, scud, Brit. Dial. brash.

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