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