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Definition of Go down

1. Verb. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way. "The airplane is sure to go down "; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

2. Verb. Go under,. "They go down "; "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

3. Verb. Grow smaller. "Interest in the project waned"

4. Verb. Be recorded or remembered. "She will go down as the first feminist"

5. Verb. Be ingested. "The food wouldn't go down"

6. Verb. Be defeated. "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

7. Verb. Disappear beyond the horizon. "The moon will soon go down "; "The sun sets early these days"

8. Verb. Stop operating. "The system goes down at least once a week"

Definition of Go down

1. Verb. (transitive) To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To fall (down), fall to the floor. ¹

4. Verb. (context: computing engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To be received or accepted. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To be recorded or remembered (as). ¹

7. Verb. (idiomatic) To perform oral sex. ¹

8. Verb. (slang) To take place, happen. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive of a heavenly body) To disappear below the horizon of a plane; to set. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Go Down

go bankrupt go begging go belly-up go blue go board go bonkers go by go by the board go by the wayside go chase yourself

go commando go crazy go deep go down like a lead balloon go down that road go down the pan go down the road go down the toilet go down the tubes go down the wrong way

go downhill go far go faster stripes go fever go fevers go figure

Literary usage of Go down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (1909)
"So they went on together, reiterating their former discourses, till they came to go down the Hill. Then said Christian, As it was difficult coming up, ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"Now we are in Camp Chase, and that is just the place, For the soldier boys to go and get a training, So that when we go down there, where the seceders are, ..."

3. American Ballads and Songs by Louise Pound (1922)
"The grease ran out and the dirt sucked in. The old book lies on the shelf. If you want any more you can sing it yourself. 119 WE'LL ALL go down TO ..."

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