The action or fact of being made to descend or of declining, deteriorating, etc.; descent from or loss of high (political or moral) status, good…

An act or instance of coming down (in various senses); a descent from a higher place or position. Also: a section of road or terrain that slopes…

A decline in dignity, importance, quality of life, moral standards, etc.

The action or an act of coming down (in various senses); descent from a higher place or position; downfall; humiliation; (also) a downpour. Cf. downc…

figurative. The action of sinking to a lower or subordinate state or condition; a moral, social, or psychological fall or decline.

figurative. A fall, downfall.

A downfall, a descent; spec. a loss of status or official position. In later use also: a disappointment, an anticlimax.