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Go down

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

    "go down to the grave"

  2. 2
    grow smaller wordnet
  3. 3
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.; Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon. intransitive

    "It'll be cooler once the sun goes down."

  4. 4
    stop operating wordnet
  5. 5
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.; To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one. intransitive

    "The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months."

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  1. 6
    be defeated wordnet
  2. 7
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.; To fall (down); to fall to the floor. intransitive

    "The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin."

  3. 8
    be ingested wordnet
  4. 9
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.; To crash. intransitive

    "The plane went down thirty miles from shore."

  5. 10
    disappear beyond the horizon wordnet
  6. 11
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.; To sink.

    "SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland."

  7. 12
    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way wordnet
  8. 13
    To be received or accepted. intransitive

    "The news didn't go down well with her parents."

  9. 14
    go under wordnet
  10. 15
    To be received or accepted.; To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk. UK, colloquial, intransitive

    "That meal went down a treat."

  11. 16
    be recorded or remembered wordnet
  12. 17
    To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison. intransitive

    "Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year."

  13. 18
    To be recorded or remembered (as). intransitive

    "Today will go down as a monumental failure."

  14. 19
    To take place, happen. intransitive, slang

    "Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head from what went down last night."

  15. 20
    To attack another gang. intransitive, slang
  16. 21
    To perform oral sex. intransitive, with-on

    "He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time."

  17. 22
    To stop functioning, to go offline. intransitive

    "Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it."

  18. 23
    To be soundly defeated. intransitive, slang

    "You guys are going down!"

  19. 24
    To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term). dated, intransitive

    "Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral."

  20. 25
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.

    "You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office."

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