downfall

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.

   “Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.”

2. isim The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.

   “Orson Scott Card It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.”

3. isim An act of falling down.

   “a downfall of rain”

4. fiil To fall down; deteriorate; decline.

   “[...] wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall" or "fall down."”