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How to pronounce downfall in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fall
Type of weakening
Has types anticlimax
Type Words
Synonyms ruin, ruination
Type of failure
Has types finish
Type Words
Synonyms precipitation
Type of weather condition, atmospheric condition, conditions, weather
Has types snow, hail, snowfall, virga, fine spray, rain, rainfall, sleet

Examples of downfall

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West Ham, as far too often this season, were instrumental in their own downfall.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
The fact they did not do this means they were the authors of their own downfall.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Now, most protesters are demanding nothing less than the downfall of the regime.
From the independent.co.uk
Predictions of Europe's downfall have a long history of refusing to materialize.
From the newsweek.com
Even a generous evaluation of his fate would call him complicit in his downfall.
From the time.com
The planes hitting the towers paled in comparison to the downfall of the towers.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The Golden Venture tragedy proved to be the beginning of Sister Ping's downfall.
From the usatoday.com
That depression eventually led to Hamilton's downfall and his retirement Friday.
From the denverpost.com
Lady Shephard herself recounts Francois Mitterrand's sorrow at Mrs T's downfall.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
More examples
  • Failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
  • Precipitation: the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
  • Fall: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"
  • 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. ...
  • Downfall (Der Untergang) is a 2004 German/Italian/Austrian epic drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945.
  • Downfall is an American television game show series in which contestants try to answer trivia questions and win up to one million dollars while on the roof of a 10-story building in Downtown Los Angeles. ...
  • Downfall is a two-player game first marketed by the Milton Bradley Company in 1970 for players aged 7 and older.
  • "Downfall" is the fourth single off 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.
  • In keeping with the musical theme of RahXephon, episodes are called "movements". and each volume of DVD is called an "orchestration". Each episode has a title screen that provides an English title for that episode, which generally does not correspond to a translation from the Japanese title. ...