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Go down

verb

Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way. Synonyms: come down, descend, fall. "The barometer is falling" , "The curtain fell on the diva" , "Her hand went up and then fell again"

Go under,. Synonyms: go under, settle, sink.

Grow smaller. Synonyms: decline, wane.

Be recorded or remembered.

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

Be defeated.

Disappear beyond the horizon. Synonyms: go under, set.

Stop operating. Synonym: crash. "The system goes down at least once a week"

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"Go down" Quotes from Famous Books

... I will go down to Lisle Court as soon as I can; I will see it; I will ascertain all about it; I will consider favourably of it. I agree with you, I think it ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VI • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... is, he is an old man; but I am glad I shall never have the chance of setting spurs to my horse and riding at him in a fair field. For if I had that chance, in one of the humours he drives me into—he'd go down, sir!" ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... once that his little gift was not to go down smoothly. He was, however, in for it now, so he picked it out from among the other papers in the case and brought it over to Susan. He endeavoured to hand it to her with an air of indifference, but I cannot ...

— The Courtship of Susan Bell • Anthony Trollope

... to the host," God said to him in the night; "for I have delivered it into thine hand. But, if thou art afraid, go down first with Phurah, thy servant, and hear what they say; and then shall thine heart be ...

— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various

... the invisible dirt on it, and she did so yearn for something new and sweet and clean. Her mother had a bill at that shop—should she—should she just go in and ask about prices? No, she could not in that horrid old frock; the shopman would not respect her. She had intended to go down to the sands and sit by the sea, and wait for things to come to her, by which she meant ideas; but the discomfort of mind set up by that glimpse of her uncouth clothes, and the horrible sense of their want of freshness, gained upon her, ...

— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand

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