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go down

VERB
  1. grow smaller
    Interest in the project waned
  2. be ingested
    This wine sure goes down well
    The food wouldn't go down
  3. disappear beyond the horizon
    the sun sets early these days
  4. be recorded or remembered
    She will go down as the first feminist
  5. stop operating
    The system goes down at least once a week
    My computer crashed last night
  6. be defeated
    If America goes down, the free world will go down, too
  7. go under
    The raft sank and its occupants drowned
  8. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
    The curtain fell on the diva
    Her hand went up and then fell again
    The temperature is going down
    The barometer is falling
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How To Use go down In A Sentence

  • I don't think it would go down very well and would be seen as another arty-farty scheme.
  • PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
  • After the flood it took weeks for the water level to go down.
  • Their heroic exploits will go down in history.
  • You can go down either the credit card or personal loan route. The Sun
  • I just make two points to Mr Key: firstly, hangi are not cooked in a microwave, and, secondly, instead of having his groceries delivered, it may pay him to go down to the supermarket.
  • Never let the sun go down on your anger. 
  • Steeton reserves were unlucky to go down to a one goal defeat at league leaders Bay Athletic.
  • The worst thing we could do now is let our heads go down and go moping about the place. The Sun
  • In places the sound of the river rises up the gravel slope, and thirsty dogs rush down for a drink and cannot reascend; should the owner go down to fetch the dog, he or she will be trapped as well.
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