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go down

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Synonyms: godown, do down, got down, go-down

Antonyms: godown, do down, got down, go-down

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Verb

  1. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
    • go down to the grave
    • It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.
    • The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.
    • The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
    • The plane went down thirty miles from shore.
    • SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland.
  2. Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
    • It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.
  3. To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
    • The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.
  4. To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
    • The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
  5. To crash.
    • The plane went down thirty miles from shore.
  6. To sink.
    • SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland.
  7. To be received or accepted.
    • The news didn't go down well with her parents.
    • That meal went down a treat.
  8. To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
    • That meal went down a treat.
  9. To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
    • Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year.
  10. To be recorded or remembered (as).
    • Today will go down as a monumental failure.
  11. To take place, happen.
  12. To attack another gang.
  13. To perform oral sex.
    • He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time.
  14. To stop functioning, to go offline.
    • Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it.
  15. To be soundly defeated.
    • You guys are going down!
  16. To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term).
    • Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral.
  17. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ down.
    • You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office.

Verb

  1. To alight; to get off from a vehicle.

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