downcome

English

Etymology

From down- +‎ come.

Noun

downcome (plural downcomes)

1. A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 1st book, pages 9-10:

     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 […]

2. 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.
3. A downpour of rain.

Verb

downcome (third-person singular simple present downcomes, present participle downcoming, simple past downcame, past participle downcome)

1. To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
   • 1958, Botteghe Oscure - Issue 21, page 174:

     Mirage-bound and moving blind, he downcomes, Up-growing from his sapling game In the laughing park, Bearing the stolen spark

   • 1995, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Page 242:

     Everthing downcame today Anne the world's spinning out and I spec we finally all going to be riding raw.

   • 2013, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, →ISBN:

     If she exes I don't know what would downcome.

Anagrams

• come down, come-down, comedown