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downcome

The English word “downcome” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
  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

  1. To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.

Etymology

From down- + come.

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