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downcome

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From down- + come.

noun downcomes

A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction. And doutles, when ever the Pope shall fall, if his ruine bee not like the sudden down-come of a Towre, the Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and fall to scrambling […]
In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
A downpour of rain.

verb downcomes · downcoming · downcame · downcome

To come down; fall down; come or fall apart. Mirage-bound and moving blind, he downcomes, Up-growing from his sapling game In the laughing park, Bearing the stolen spark

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@misc{downcome_2026,
  title = {downcome},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/downcome},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}