downfall
/ˈdaʊnfɔːl/ verb C2- To fall down; deteriorate; decline.
He/she/it downfalls · Past downfell · Past participle downfallen · -ing form downfalling
Verb forms
- Base form
- downfall
- He/she/it
- downfalls
- Past
- downfell
- Past participle
- downfallen
- -ing form
- downfalling
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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It was not over the downfall of the man, but over the defeat of the Napoleonic idea, that they rejoiced, and in this they foresaw for themselves the bright and cheering prospect of a revivified political existence.
In fact, the minister, who, in the plenitude of his power, had been unable to unearth Napoleon’s secret, might in despair at his own downfall interrogate Dantès and so lay bare the motives of Villefort’s plot.
There is a piece in the Fifth Reader--‘The Downfall of Poland’--that is just full of thrills.
He has been my ruin and my downfall.”
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