Usually means: Decline or collapse after success.
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  1. downfall: Merriam-Webster
  2. downfall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downfall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downfall: Collins English Dictionary
  5. downfall: Vocabulary.com
  6. Downfall, downfall: Wordnik
  7. downfall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. downfall: Wiktionary
  9. downfall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. downfall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  12. Downfall, downfall: Dictionary.com
  13. downfall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Downfall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. downfall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. downfall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. downfall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Downfall: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. downfall: FreeDictionary.org
  22. downfall: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. downfall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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(Note: See downfallen as well.)

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noun:  A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
noun:  The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
noun:  An act of falling down.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall down; deteriorate; decline.

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