go down

verb

1. also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a lower place or level; sink, decline, decrease, etc

   prices are going down

   the path goes down to the sea

   the ship went down this morning

2. to be defeated; lose
3. to be remembered or recorded (esp in the phrase go down in history )
4. to be received

   his speech went down well

5. (of food) to be swallowed
6. bridge to fail to make the number of tricks previously contracted for
7. to leave a college or university at the end of a term or the academic year
8. usually foll by with to fall ill; be infected
9. (of a celestial body) to sink or set

   the sun went down before we arrived

10. slang.
    to go to prison, esp for a specified period

    he went down for six months

11. slang.
    to happen
12. go down on slang.
    to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on

Example Sentences

Sarabia briefly went down after a run but immediately got back up.

From Los Angeles Times

It also went down to the wire in New Orleans, where the Saints ended their seven-game losing run by edging out the Atlanta Falcons in interim head coach Darren Rizzi's first game in charge.

From BBC

"When the water goes down, I’ll grow grain, even if it’s years," she adds.

From BBC

"That went down a lot better than it did in Eurovision," he laughed, shortly before Jedward invaded the stage and caused utter chaos.

From BBC

You might cringe at the word hustle, but that doesn't mean you have to go down a rabbit hole of vapid brofluencers.

From Salon

Related Words

• collapse
• crumple
• decline
• decrease
• descend
• drop
• pitch
• plunge
• reduce
• sink
• slump
• tumble