go-down

Verbs

  • (v) 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
    come down, descend, fall,
  • (v) go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" go under, sink, settle,
  • (v) grow smaller
    • Interest in the project waned
    wane, decline,
  • (v) be recorded or remembered
    • She will go down as the first feminist
  • (v) be ingested
    • This wine sure goes down well
    • The food wouldn't go down
  • (v) be defeated
    • If America goes down, the free world will go down, too
  • (v) disappear beyond the horizon
    • the sun sets early these days
    go under, set,
  • (v) stop operating
    • My computer crashed last night
    • The system goes down at least once a week
    crash,

Synonyms

come down descend fall go under sink settle wane decline set crash

Antonyms

ascend go up rise move up lift arise come up uprise float swim

See also

cave in collapse fall in give way founder give break filter permeate sink in percolate

Words of close approximity

go down on