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Go down Very Common

Go down has 9 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

"The temperature is going down"

"The barometer is falling"

"The curtain fell on the diva"

"Her hand went up and then fell again"

2

go under

"The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

3

grow smaller

"Interest in the project waned"

4

be recorded or remembered

"She will go down as the first feminist"

5

be ingested

"This wine sure goes down well"

"The food wouldn't go down"

6

be defeated

"If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

7

disappear beyond the horizon

"the sun sets early these days"

8

stop operating

"My computer crashed last night"

"The system goes down at least once a week"

9

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ down.

Example Sentences
"The temperature is going down" verb
"The barometer is falling" verb
"The curtain fell on the diva" verb
"Her hand went up and then fell again" verb
"The raft sank and its occupants drowned" verb
"Interest in the project waned" verb
"She will go down as the first feminist" verb
"This wine sure goes down well" verb
"The food wouldn't go down" verb
"If America goes down, the free world will go down, too" verb
Related Terms
Antonyms
go up lift swim come up
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
travel descend decrease lose fail
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
prolapse rappel unhorse avalanche dive set decline precipitate sink crash flop tumble drop plop pitch alight pounce drip cascade subside founder submerge dip wear on
Rhyming Words
own sown town lown mown gown rown down adown known grown frown shown brown sdown coown blown clown crown drown
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