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downfall
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Downfall \Down"fall`\ (doun"f[add]l`), n.
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A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid.
--Holland.Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour.
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A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin; as, the senator's unrestrained sexual escapades led to his downfall.
Dire were the consequences which would follow the downfall of so important a place.
--Motley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth. vb. (context intransitive English) To fall down; deteriorate; decline.
WordNet
n. failure that results in a loss of position or reputation [syn: ruin, ruination]
the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) [syn: precipitation]
a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: fall] [ant: rise]
Wikipedia
Downfall may refer to:
Downfall is a 2004 German historical war film depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was based on several histories of the period. The film was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, and written and produced by Bernd Eichinger. The film received critical acclaim upon release and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Downfall is the fourth album by Solitude Aeturnus. It was re-released as a double CD together with Through the Darkest Hour.
Downfall was a ska and punk band from the Bay Area formed by Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello, Pat Mello, and Jason Hammon following the break-up of Operation Ivy in 1989 and pre-dating Armstrong's and Freeman's wider recognition in Rancid. They performed three shows, one at 924 Gilman Street, over a period of three months.
"Downfall" was released in 2004 as the fourth single from Matchbox Twenty's 2002 album, More Than You Think You Are. The song was a change compared to other songs from the album, featuring a gospel choir. The song was written by producer Matt Serletic and lead singer Rob Thomas.
The song was a modest hit on the U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40, peaking at #27 in summer 2004.
An album by Shadow Host, released in 1999.
Downfall is an American television game show series in which contestants try to answer trivia questions and win up to $1 million while on the roof of a 10-story building in Downtown Los Angeles. The series, hosted by Chris Jericho, premiered on June 22, 2010, on ABC.
Downfall is a two-player game for players aged 7 and older, first marketed by the Milton Bradley Company in 1970.
The game consists of a vertical board with five slotted dials on each side. Each player starts with ten numbered tokens or discs at the top of the board. The object of the game is to move the discs to the bottom of the board by turning the dials. Players alternate turns moving the dials and cannot move a dial that their opponent has just moved. The winner is the first player to move all of their discs into the tray at the bottom. An advanced version of the rules dictates that the discs arrive in the tray in numerical order.
Since neither player can see the other's board, it is common to inadvertently advance the opponent's disc. The game rewards forward thinking and planning; players may try to "trap" their opponent into turning a dial that will advance their own disc, while trying to ensure that their own discs are not caught and dropped out of order.
The game is currently available in the UK under the name New Downfall, manufactured and marketed by Hasbro. The new version follows the same rules but has a more futuristic design in red and yellow.
The game's box art is parodied on the cover of Expert Knob Twiddlers, an album by Aphex Twin and Mike Paradinas.
"Downfall" is a single taken from the second studio album Hatebreeder, by the Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. The song, originally called "Forevermore", was written by the lead vocalist Alexi Laiho. The video of "Downfall" was directed by Mika Lindberg. Side-b contains the cover track "No Commands" by fellow Finnish band Stone.
The single spent a total of 11 weeks on the Finnish charts, 2 of which were at #1.
It is usually the last song played live at Children of Bodom gigs. They sometimes use an extended intro by keyboardist Janne Wirman in which Laiho and guitarist Roope Latvala play the riffs of famous metal songs (such as Dio's Holy Diver and Judas Priest's Breaking the Law) after which they begin playing the song's main riff.
Downfall - The Early Years is a compilation album of the Dutch band The Gathering. The record was first released on 22 May 2001 by Hammerheart Records label. On 15 September 2008, an expanded version of the album was released by Vic Records.
Downfall is a 1997 South Korean film by Im Kwon-taek. The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients.
"Downfall" is a song by Alabama-based band Trust Company. It is the lead single off their debut album The Lonely Position of Neutral. "Downfall" peaked at no. 6 in both the US Mainstream Rock Tracks and US Modern Rock Tracks charts. It is one of the band's most well-known songs.
Downfall: The Tommy Sheridan Story is a book by Alan McCombes, former policy co-ordinator of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) and editor of the Scottish Socialist Voice, about the political career of Tommy Sheridan, who led the SSP for several years until he was forced to resign amid allegations about his personal life, eventually leaving the party a few years before his eventual conviction for perjury.
McCombes finished writing the book described by the Scotsman as "the first insider's account of the fall-out from Sheridan's trips to a Manchester swinging club and his ill-fated decision to take on the News of the World after it published details of his sexual proclivities" less than five months after Sheridan was jailed for committing perjury.
The book was launched on 6 July 2011 at Word Power Books, Scotland's oldest radical and independent bookshop.
Downfall'' (German:Der Absturz'') is a 1923 German silent film directed by Ludwig Wolff and starring Asta Nielsen.
Usage examples of "downfall".
Starr, but it must be admitted that since certain bunglings of CIA-trained men led to the downfall of a most friendly and cooperative President, our confidence in that organization has not been without limits.
Feline intuition told her that the meeting between the particularly stupid human, Cycler Jhonni, and this particularly miserable human, Endang, held promise in terms of the downfall of her enemy Derveet.
Since the downfall of feudalism and the establishment of modern centralized monarchy, the church has been robbed of the greater part of her temporal possessions, and deprived, in most countries, of all civil functions, and treated by the state either as an enemy or as a slave.
The poet had said that the, downfall of the Roman empire would begin only when one of the successors of Augustus bethought him removing the capital of the empire to where it had originated.
I have feared this ever since Laurie put me in charge of Chatterford, but curiously my downfall has nothing to do with Chatterford.
The whole episode had been as satisfying as wine to him, he had expressed himself joyously, had fought and been pursued, had rescued his little friend and seen the downfall of her enemies, and, into the bargain, had seven thousand unexpected lire in his pockets.
But if Captain Aubrey would give him a little notice before he next came to Mesenteron, there would be a magnificent review: Captain Aubrey would see a splendid body of men, devoted to the British cause, burning to see the downfall of the French, and perfectly equipped, except in the article of guns.
With a glad heart, the Congress, year after year, removed the political disabilities from class after class of those who had incurred them, until at last all, so desiring, had been reinstated in the full privileges of citizenship, save the very few unrepentant instigators and leaders of the Rebellion, who, in the depths of that oblivion to which they seemingly had been consigned, continued to nurse the bitterness of their downfall into an implacable hatred of that Republic which had paralyzed the bloody hands of Rebellion, and shattered all their ambitious dreams of Oligarchic rule, if not of Empire.
The beginning of my downfall was that he had as little regard for the value of a Museum of Plagiarism as I did.
It was just such lack of attention to detail which leads to downfall and, Ikey told himself, if a mistake of the same magnitude of neglect had occurred with one of his urchins, the young tooler would have been most severely punished.
In discerning the suitability of the Teutonic legend for this purpose Marlowe showed a far truer understanding of what tragedy should be, of the superior terrors of moral over material downfall, than he displayed in his more successful later tragedy.
Russia, that Rasputin is holding the camera, that I am the Tsarevich, and that behind the fence Mensheviks and Bolsheviks are tinkering with homemade bombs and plotting the downfall of my autocratic family.
The Downfall of Autocracy, and Complete Victory for the Cause of Righteousness and Freedom.
You treat it as though it were a place deserving of your loyalty, when in fact the hatred breeding there could eventually be the downfall of the Wolf Breeds.
The fact that they were excellent burrowers had proven their downfall.