(..) as Somerset had understood the play, there could occur no flingings of her person upon her lover's neck, or agonized downfalls upon the stage, in her whole performance (..)
1977, Mina P. Shaughnessy, Errors and expectations: a guide for the teacher of basic writing:
... wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall" or "fall down."
1998, Peter Vink, Ernst A. P. Koningsveld, Steven Dhondt, Human factors in organizational design and management-VI:
Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building.
1998, Lithuanian physics journal:
It should be noted that the magnitude of satellites decreases when tuning out of degeneracy, and in the wavelength range of 1.2-1.3 pm it downfalls to the value of 10-15% of the main spike magnitude.
2008, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra:
... As goodly air as ever From lunar orb downfell— Be it by hazard, Or supervened it by arrogancy?