downfall

descending; descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent, deciduous; nodding to its fall.

destroyed; perishing; trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction; extinct; all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing., destructive, subversive, ruinous, incendiary, deletory; destroying n. suicidal; deadly (killing).

unimproved; deteriorated; altered, altered for the worse; injured; sprung; withering, spoiling; on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weatherbeaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky [U.S.]., decayed; moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work (useless) [more]., at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall (destruction); tottering (dangerous); past cure (hopeless); fatigued; retrograde (retrogressive); deleterious.

disappointed; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of one's reckoning.

unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping; at fault; unfortunate., abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual, ineffective; inefficient (impotent); insufficient; unavailing (useless); of no effect., aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked., lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt (not paying); played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked on the head; destroyed.

obliterated; out of print; printless; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.