downfall

IPA: dˈaʊnfɔɫ

A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
An act of falling down.

Examples of "downfall" in Sentences

Earth Abides, check, the downfall is a bit of a mystery.
Yes, in fact his downfall is about halfway through I'd say.
Her downfall is that everytime she opens her mouth, she speaks volumes about herself and her ability without knowing it.
The fact that Americans would consider bringing back the party that nearly caused our downfall is incredulously stupid. sifto77
The only downfall is that many 30. 30s have hard plastic or metal butt plates that can bite the shoulder if he is practicing with only a t-shirt on.
In contrast to her previous greatness, her downfall is here, by a sudden transition, depicted under the image of a vessel foundering at sea. east wind -- blowing from Lebanon, the most violent wind in the
However, the manifold blunders and petty jealousies of this official are now producing such grievous results that his downfall is almost certain, and if his removal in disgrace from a position which he has proved himself totally unfit for be considered a satisfaction to those he has injured, why then I, among others, am morally assured of that amount of vengeance, at least.
In the eighteen enormous folio volumes, which he filled with his minute and gothic characters, he gives his own version of the story of what he terms his downfall, and, having, notwithstanding his prolixity, exhausted this subject in the first five of the eighteen tomes, he proceeds to deal with so much of the history of his own day as came immediately under his notice in his Cornish retirement.