Crossword-Solution: DOWNFALL 8 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Downfall n. A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Downfall n. A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or
happiness; destruction; ruin.

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DOWNFALL anagram FALLDOWN

We have 55 clues for the answer “DOWNFALL”

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failure that results in a loss of position or reputation 1 answer
a sudden fall of rain or snow 1 answer
Tragic flaw byproduct 1 answer
Snowstorm, for one. 1 answer
FALL of ruin etc. 1 answer
FALL from prosperity 1 answer
A sudden heavy fall of rain or snow 1 answer
rainfall 2 answers
A loss of status 2 answers
___ total loss 2 answers
Cause of ruination 2 answers
devaluation 4 answers
devolution 8 answers
road to ruin 9 answers
loo 10 answers
Atrophy? 10 answers
BAD end 11 answers
downhill 12 answers
Comeuppance 14 answers
declension 14 answers
utter ruin 17 answers
Declination 21 answers
DEMOLITION ___ 21 answers
Ruination 22 answers
annihilation 26 answers
perdition 29 answers
CENSURABLE conduct 31 answers
holocaust 33 answers
"Bankruptcy" 39 answers
blight 41 answers
Eclipse 44 answers
massacre 46 answers
Bane 49 answers
destroyer 49 answers
Doom 50 answers
Malfunction 55 answers
Breakdown 56 answers
Waterloo 57 answers
Havoc 59 answers
Scourge 59 answers
Decadence 61 answers
hell 62 answers
conquest 62 answers
CAVE (IN) 62 answers
Undoing 64 answers
DEATH ___ 67 answers
loss 67 answers
Descent 68 answers
Damnation 69 answers
Humiliation 70 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DOWNFALL (5)

Finally, little heroic as he was, it seemed more decorous to be overthrown in the downfall of the party with which he had been content to stand than to remain a forlorn survivor, when so many worthier men were falling: and at last, after subsisting for four years on the mercy of a hostile administration, to be compelled then to define his position anew, and claim the yet more humiliating mercy of a friendly one.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
English though they were, they had often been in France, and had mixed sufficiently with the French to realise the unbending hauteur, the bitter hatred with which the old _noblesse_ of France viewed all those who had helped to contribute to their downfall.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Ahmed was taught by his family that the Shah's downfall was the only acceptable response to the loss of faith under his regime.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
What with your eternal tobacco, Watson, and your irregularity at meals, I expect that you will get notice to quit, and that I shall share your downfall—not, however, before we have solved the problem of the nervous tutor, the careless servant, and the three enterprising students.” Holmes made no further allusion to the matter that day, though he sat lost in thought for a long time after our belated dinner.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Market oriented reforms have been introduced fitfully since the downfall of CEAUSESCU in December 1989, with the result a growing private sector, especially in services.
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States Central Intelligence Agency 2008

Quotes with DOWNFALL (3)

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity …
C. JoyBell C.
The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about the…
C. JoyBell C.
In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existentialist ethics. Every subject plays his part as such specifically through exploits or projects that serve as a mode of transcendence; he achieves liberty only through a continual reaching out towards other liberties. There is no justification for present existence other than its exp…
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
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Used 7 times in crossword archives (1965–2020).