Failure that results in a loss of position or reputation.

synonyms: ruin, ruination.

Roget 732: failure; nonsuccess^†, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness^†; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen etc. 158 [Lat.]; labor in vain etc. (inutility) 645; no go; inefficacy^†; inefficaciousness etc. adj.; vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello]; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip etc. (disappointment) 509.    blunder etc. (mistake) 495; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication^†, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas [Fr.], titubation^†, b_evue [Fr.], faute [Fr.], lurch; botchery etc. (want of skill) 699^†; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].    mishap etc. (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.    repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit^†, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.    fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck etc. (destruction) 162; deathblow; bankruptcy etc. (nonpayment) 808.    losing game, affaire flamb_ee.    victim; bankrupt; flunker^†, flunky [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 735: adversity, evil etc. 619; failure etc. 732; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius^†; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond.    trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.    pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction etc. (painfulness) 830; bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.    mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset^†, comedown, setback [U.S.].    losing game; falling etc. v.; fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness; undoing; extremity; ruin etc. (destruction) 162.    ... show more

The falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist).

synonym: precipitation.

Dutch: neerslag
Polish: opad

A sudden decline in strength or number or importance.

synonym: fall.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption^†, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; eboulement [Fr.], smash, havoc, delabrement [Fr.], debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement [Fr.], wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.    extinction, annihilation; destruction of life etc. 361; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom.    destroying etc. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition etc. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm^†; sacrifice; ravage, razzia^†; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution etc. 146; extirpation etc. (extraction) 301; beginning of the end, commencement de la fin [Fr.], road to ruin; dilapidation etc. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.    ... show more

Roget 306: descent, descension^†, declension, declination; fall; falling etc. v.; slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute^†; titubation^†, stumble; fate of Icarus.    avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.    declivity, dip, hill.    [equipment for descending by rappeling] rappel.    ... show more

Dutch: neergang, ondergang, teloorgang, val
Polish: upadek