- go down
- 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"
Synonym(s): descend, fall, go down, come down Antonym(s): arise, ascend, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise
- go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
Synonym(s): sink, settle, go down, go under Antonym(s): float, swim
- grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
Synonym(s): decline, go down, wane
- be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"
- be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"
- be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
- disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days"
Synonym(s): set, go down, go under Antonym(s): ascend, come up, rise, uprise
- stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
Synonym(s): crash, go down
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