1. Failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
   - ruin, ruination 
2. The falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
   - precipitation 
3. A sudden decline in strength or number or importance
   - fall

Derived forms: downfalls

Type of: atmospheric condition, conditions, failure, weakening, weather, weather condition

Encyclopedia: Downfall

• clothesbrush
• clotheshorse
• clothesless
• clothesline
• clothespin
• clothespress
• clothier
• clothing
• clothing store
• Clotho
• clotted
• clotted cream
• clotting
• clotting factor
• clotting time
• cloture
• cloud
• cloud bank
• cloud base
• cloud chamber
• cloud cover
• cloud grass
• cloud nine
• cloud over
• column