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Definition of 'go down'

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"
       Synonyms: descend fall come down
       Antonyms: rise lift arise move up go up come up uprise ascend go up
  2. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
       Synonyms: sink settle go under
       Antonyms: float swim
  3. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
       Synonyms: decline wane
  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"
       Synonyms: set go under
       Antonyms: rise come up uprise ascend
  8. stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
       Synonyms: crash


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