Synonyms for go under
go un·der

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1. go under

   Synonyms:
   fail, fall, get the worst of, go down, surrender

   Antonyms:
   bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, bruise, castigate, chastise, conquer, cudgel, defeat, flog, overcome, pommel, pound, scourge, smite, spank, strike, surpass, switch, thrash, vanquish, whip, worst

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1. sink, settle, go down, go underverb

   go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

   Synonyms:
   settle, square up, dip, make up, patch up, nail down, drop down, sink, settle down, go down, square off, decline, lapse, slide down, descend, come down, root, determine, crash, steady down, subside, reconcile, fall, finalise, ensconce, wane, get back, pass, bury, adjudicate, conciliate, decide, drop, resolve, locate, fall off, go by, set, finalize, slump, take root

2. set, go down, go underverb

   disappear beyond the horizon

   "the sun sets early these days"

   Synonyms:
   plant, settle, descend, dress, place, prepare, mark, put, localize, go by, coiffe, fix, sink, fructify, gear up, go down, jell, come down, decline, position, arrange, crash, define, specify, lay, correct, countersink, do, determine, coiffure, wane, lay out, coif, ready, set up, congeal, sic, fall, limit, set, typeset, adjust, rig, pose, localise

3. go by, go underverb

   be called; go by a certain name

   "She goes by her maiden name again"

   Synonyms:
   go along, lapse, slip away, surpass, go down, set, elapse, settle, travel by, sink, glide by, go past, slide by, pass, slip by, go by, pass by

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1. Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953:

   Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

2. Steve Foresti:

   All else equal, these institutions are fairly significantly under their target weight to equities, meaning they need to purchase to get back to their target, there is no question there is some natural buying and selling around those rebalancing activities.

3. John Barnes:

   All I have been trying to do is protect my daughter, there is no way in hell I have influenced seven very high-level organizations that are geared toward protecting children’s rights and safety into sweeping her claims of rape and child abuse under the rug.

4. Eric Kuhn:

   Are these temporary conditions ? We don't know ; the science is suggesting they're not, it puts Reclamation in a tough situation, because they're learning how to deal with a changing climate. Operating these systems under deep uncertainty is not what they were designed for.

5. International Olympic Committee:

   Today is a moment of hope, yes, it is very different from what all of us had imagined. But let us cherish this moment because finally we are all here together : the athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees and the International Olympic Committee Refugee Olympic Team, living under one roof together in the Olympic Village.