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Go down   /goʊ daʊn/   Listen
Go down

verb
1.
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"
2.
Go under,.  Synonyms: go under, settle, sink.
3.
Grow smaller.  Synonyms: decline, wane.
4.
Be recorded or remembered.
5.
Be ingested.  "The food wouldn't go down"
6.
Be defeated.
7.
Disappear beyond the horizon.  Synonyms: go under, set.
8.
Stop operating.  Synonym: crash.  "The system goes down at least once a week"



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"Go down" Quotes from Famous Books



... and will do all I can to assist your views, Captain Levee. Now, we will go down again. I will give you a receipt for a coil of rope, which you will send your boat for, and write a letter to the owners, after which you will wish me good bye, and ...
— The Privateer's-Man - One hundred Years Ago • Frederick Marryat
... heart, thy ruddy valves,— It is thy master calls: Let me go down, and, curious, trace Thy labyrinthine halls. Open, O heart! and let me view The secrets of thy den: Myself unto myself now show With introspective ken. Expose thyself, thou covered nest Of passions, and be seen: Stir up ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various
... to her to-night. She's certain to be at the theatre. We ought to make certain of getting a ticket for you, Quinny. Let's go down to the theatre ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... was going to write a book, he changed his manner of thinking as to my reception (for I fear they respect persons even in a Trappist monastery), and told me I must be sure to ask for the Father Prior, and state my case to him in full. On second thoughts he determined to go down with me himself; he thought he could manage for me better. Might he say that I was ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... don't offer her any money," the doctor warned, as he watched her go down the hall and disappear for an instant in the bedroom where James Hambleton lay. She came out almost immediately and without a word descended the wide stairway, opened the dining-room door, and called softly ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger


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