Synonyms for go down
go down

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1. go down

   Synonyms:
   fail, fall, get the worst of, go under, 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. descend, fall, go down, come downverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   crash, boil down, shine, light, accrue, diminish, set, strike, devolve, sicken, flow, precipitate, settle, go under, reduce, condescend, lessen, come down, sink, deign, pass, descend, come, fall, return, decrease, derive, decline, wane, hang, fall down

2. 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, square off, decline, lapse, slide down, descend, come down, root, determine, crash, steady down, go under, 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

3. decline, go down, waneverb

   grow smaller

   "Interest in the project waned"

   Synonyms:
   reject, come down, set, refuse, go under, settle, correct, sink, pass up, descend, fall, worsen, crash, decline, wane, slump, turn down

4. go downverb

   be recorded or remembered

   "She will go down as the first feminist"

   Synonyms:
   fall, settle, set, come down, go under, crash, descend, sink, wane, decline

5. go downverb

   be ingested

   "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"

   Synonyms:
   fall, settle, set, come down, go under, crash, descend, sink, wane, decline

6. go downverb

   be defeated

   "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

   Synonyms:
   fall, settle, set, come down, go under, crash, descend, sink, wane, decline

7. set, go down, go underverb

   disappear beyond the horizon

   "the sun sets early these days"

   Synonyms:
   plant, settle, go under, descend, dress, place, prepare, mark, put, localize, go by, coiffe, fix, sink, fructify, gear up, 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

8. crash, go downverb

   stop operating

   "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

   Synonyms:
   barge in, come down, set, doss down, go under, settle, gate-crash, break apart, doss, sink, descend, fall, break up, ram, crash, decline, wane, dash

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1. • Astronomy
   • Decrease
   • Descend
   • Fail
   • Lose
   • Move

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1. go down

   Synonyms:
   descend

2. go down

   Synonyms:
   be swallowed

3. go down

   Synonyms:
   (Low.) be received, be admitted, pass current

4. go down

   Synonyms:
   fail, come to nothing, come to nought

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1. Jeremy Bechen:

   On closer inspection, you can see the charge in there. It seemed pretty real to me, it was kind of a heart-skip moment. You look down the tail pipe of it and see, ‘Oh, there’s something in there!’.

2. Prince Albert:

   She didn’t leave Monaco in a huff! she didn’t leave because she was mad at me or anybody else. She was going down to South Africa to reassess her foundation’s work down there and to take a little time off with her brother and some friends.

3. Valerie Lyzhyn:

   Really, business has gone down, one year ago we had 200 passengers, before we stopped operating we had only 50.

4. Christine Myers:

   This has made us slow down a little in our day-to-day lives. Now, we stop and we look and we take it all in and we talk about it. This is what it's all about, isn't it? encyclopedia.

5. Matthew Davis:

   Those hospitals have said, ‘You know what? We have an average of one patient a day or two patients a day. This doesn’t make sense anymore. We can’t sustain that nursing staff with specialized pediatric training for that. We’re going to close it down,’.