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

"By going down the protective route, we can hopefully prevent cognitive decline from continuing."

From Science Daily

Kennedy and Trump have gone down that road.

From Los Angeles Times

Zilbalodis would find it “quite boring” to go down that road.

From Los Angeles Times

I have my own memories of how something went down.

From Los Angeles Times

Then I turned 8, and my smile went down.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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