go down
go down
descend; decrease; be defeated; be recorded in history; happen, take place (Slang); perform oral sex (Slang)
going down
traveling in a downward direction, descending; losing value
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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"
(synonym) descend, fall, come down
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) prolapse
2. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
(synonym) sink, settle, go under
(hypernym) descend, fall, come down
(hyponym) subside, settle
(verb-group) sink
3. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
(synonym) decline, wane
(hypernym) decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
(hyponym) dip
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"
(hypernym) lose
7. disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days"
(synonym) set, go under
(hypernym) descend, fall, come down
(classification) astronomy, uranology
8. stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
(synonym) crash
(hypernym) fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
go down
lie down, go to bed, go to sleep Our baby goes down early - and gets up early.
go down
Synonyms and related words:
be believed, be lost, be received, be swallowed, bite the dust, bow, capsize, carry conviction, cascade, cataract, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, crash, crumple, decline, descend, die, dip, dip down, down, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, fade, fail, fall, fall away, fall down, fall off, find credence, flop, flop down, flump, flump down, fold, founder, give way, go downhill, go off, go under, gravitate, have enough, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, keel, keel over, lapse, lick the dust, lose, lose altitude, lose out, lose the day, lower, overset, overturn, parachute, pass current, pitch, pitchpole, plop, plop down, plummet, plump, plunge, pounce, pour down, precipitate, rain, reach the depths, run down, sag, say uncle, scuttle, set, settle, settle down, sink, sink down, sink like lead, slide, slip, slouch, slump, slump down, somersault, stoop, submerge, submerse, submit, subside, succumb, surrender, swag, swoop, take the count, topple, touch bottom, trend downward, tumble, turn over, turn turtle, upset, upset the boat, wane
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.