Go Down

Definition: Go Down

Go Down

Verb

1. 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".

2. Go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned".

3. Grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned".

4. Be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist".

5. Be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down".

6. Be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too".

7. Disappear beyond the horizon; of celestial bodies such as the sun and the moon.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Go Down

Adversity

Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

Belief

Go down, find credence, pass current; be received; Verb:, be current; Adjective: possess, take hold of, take possession of the mind.

Content

Be tolerated; go down, go down well, go down with; do; be OK.

Descent

Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Excitability

Be borne, be endured; go down.

Plunge

Get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.

Poverty

Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt).

Crosswords: Go Down

Fineyou clean and I'll go down and run your office! (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

I shoot you, you go down!! (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Don't let the sun go down upon your anger. (Little Women; writing credit: Robin Swicord. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.)

I will go down in history as the man who opened a door. (Ever After; writing credit: Susannah Grant, Andy Tennant and Rick Parks.)

Hey, Kramer, you want to go down to the Bronx and help me take flyers off George's car? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Would she go down on you in a theater (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

To hear you play your music when the sun go down, (Johnny B. Goode; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

And when it's time to go down (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits)

Slow down, go down, got to get your lovin' one more time (Slow Ride; performing artist: FOGHAT)

Don't Go Down the... (1971)

We All Go Down (1969)

Go Down Death (1944)

The Bells Go Down (1943)

Beer Must Go Down (1916)

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (performing artist: George Michael & Elton John)

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Books

• Go Down, Moses (Vintage International) (reference)

• Go Down, Moses: A Celebration of the African-American Spiritual (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Go Down, Moses: African American Spirituals (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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"They that go down to the sea in ships 1623 -1923". The Fishermen's Memorial at Gloucester commemorating the thousands of fishermen who have lost their lives from this port. Credit: Fisheries.

Jump in mister -- I'll take ya down! : I don't want to go down, I wanna go up!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Jeep engines. Manifolds for jeep engines ready to go down the assembly line of a Midwest plant. They'll do their part in helping the tough little cars go places. Continental Motors, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Water pump and tractor power plant, a common sight in the rice area in Arkansas. In some places in the state, the pumps go down more than one hundred feet and pump constantly the entire period during which the rice is grown. Each year, so much water is dr. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miners about to go down into the pit. Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ida B. Wells--I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Light the lantern, take it, and go down.

Many go down into the depths and never come up.

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Health

Although the infection can stay in the body indefinitely, the number of outbreaks tends to go down over a period of years. (references)

Unfortunately, we have not found ways to permanently make the swelling of lymph nodes go down or to fix the problem with apoptosis (see WHAT HAPPENS IN ALPS). (references)

Cholesterol and LDL (low-density lipoproteins) levels may go up, and your HDL (high-density lipoproteins�the so-called "good" cholesterol) level may go down slightly. (references)

Business

However, there are strong, clear signs that access charges may go down at double-digit annual rates in the next few years. (references)

The Bulgarian mobile telecommunications market will increasingly be characterized by intense competition while prices go down. In such a market, telecommunications carriers will depend on the quality of and variety of the value-added telecommunications services they offer. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "go down": go down deeply ♦ go down in history ♦ go down in history as ♦ go down in one's boots ♦ go down like ninepins ♦ go down on ♦ go down on one's knees ♦ go down on one's knees to ♦ go down the drain ♦ go down the hill ♦ go down the road ♦ go down the street ♦ go down the valley ♦ go down to the country ♦ go down well ♦ go down with ♦ go down with flags flying ♦ go down with flu ♦ To go down ♦ to go down the drain. Additional references.

Afrikaans

daal (descend, land), afgaan (Afghan, descend, get, get off). (various references)

Albanian

zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), ulem (alight, bend, bend over, burn down, decrease, deepen, descend, dip, drop, duck, fall, recede, sink, sit, sit down, take a seat), pranohem (be admitted, pass, pass off), lëshohem (be launched, cave in, fail, flag, flop, hibernate, lag, languish, rush on, stoop, unwind), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏إنخفض (die down, drop, fade, recede, sag, stoop, tumble). (various references)

Basque

jeitsi. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слизам (climb down, come down, detrain, dismount, drop, get down, get off, get out of, land, pop down, step down, step out), гълтам се, залязвам (descend, set, sink), потъвам (be engulfed, be lost, go under, lock, plunge, sink, submerge, submerse, subside), понижавам се (drop, fall, tail off), падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Catalan

baixar (descend). (various references)

Chinese 

下去 (go on). (various references)

Czech

potápìt se (skin-dive), být na ústupu, jít dolù, jít ke dnu (go under), klesat (be on the decline, decline, descend, drop, fall, fall off, lose height, sink, subside, wane), opadnout (fizzle out, subside), absolvovat univerzitu, podlehnout (be defeated, give way, go under, shrink, succumb), zapadat, sestoupit (come down, descend, dismount, get down, light), sestupovat, sklánìt se (bow, droop, verge), snižovat se (diminish), spadnout (collapse, crash, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall over, topple), splasknout (fizzle out), přistávat. (various references)

Danish

nedtur (to go down, to land). (various references)

Dutch

zinken (degenerate, descend, dive, get off, sink), zakken (abort, descend, fail, miscarry), wegzakken (descend, sink), verzakken (descend), teruglopen (go back, return), ondergaan (abide, bear, endure, perish, put up with, set, suffer), naar beneden gaan (descend, get off), dalen (decline, decrease, descend, land, wane), afvaren (depart, leave, sail, start), afslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, beat off, cease, come to a halt, decrease, discount, halt, knock off, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, stop, strike off, turn, turning), afdalen (descend, get off). (various references)

Esperanto

subiri (set), malsupreniri (descend, get off), malplialtiĝi, malleviĝi (descend), descendi (descend), ŝipveturi laŭflue sur. (various references)

Faeroese

ganga oman (descend), stíga niður (descend). (various references)

Finnish

vajota syvyyteen (go to the bottom), upota (founder, sink), upoksista (founder, sink), talttua (abate, be tamed, subside), laskeutua (alight, come dawn, descend, get down, land, settle, sink, touch down), laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, include, lay, let, let down, let go, lower, reckon, set, work out), huojentua (be relieved, become easier, fall, get cheaper), aleta (desrease, drop, fall, sink). (various references)

French

descendre (go out), baisser. (various references)

Frisian

delgean (descend, get off), ôfstappe (descend, get off), ôfrinne (descend, get off). (various references)

German

gehen (ambulate, go, going, head, lead, leave, leaving, look out, market, move, pass, prove, quit, step, to ambulate, to go, walk, walking, work), absacken (drop off, pitch, sag, sink, subside, subsidence), abschwellen (die away, ebb away, fade away), absinken (drop off, fall, go downhill, lapse, plummet, sink, subside), ankommen (arrival, arrive, catch on, come, come across, come along, come down, end up, get, get in, get over, get to, go down well, go over, hinge, move in, pull in, take off, to arrive, wander in), den kontakt nicht erfüllen, die universität verlassen, durchfallen (fail, fall through, flop, flunk, to flunk), eingelocht werden, abnehmen (administer, amputate, become less crass, buy, carry out, decline, decrease, deduct, diminish, drop, ebb, extract, flag, hold, inspect, lessen, lift, lose weight, pull off, reduce one's weight, relieve, remove, shrink, slack off, slacken off, slim down, slow down, tail off, take away, take down, take off, thin down, to lose weight, to take down, to take off, unpeg, unship, wane, wanes), herunterfahren (bring down), zurücktreten (abdicate, back out, come second, decline, diminish, fade, fall back, kick back, recede, rescind, resign, retrogress, step back, step down, subside, to recede, to rescind, to retire, to retrogress, to step back, withdraw), runtergehen (come down), sich senken (descend, drop, fall, sag, settle, sink, subside), sich verbilligen (cheapen, get cheaper), sich verringen, sinken (come down, decline, descend, diminish, droop, drop, fall, founder, sag, sink, slump, subside, wane), untergehen (be destroyed, become enslaved, become run-down, come to an end, decline, founder, go under, lose, perish, set, sink, vanish), vermerkt werden, weniger sein, zurückgehen (abate, check back, cut back, double back, fall back, fall off, get back, go back, head back, peak off, reach back, recede, reminiscence, retreat, retrograde, return, sag, shrink, slip back, to go back, to retrograde, trace back, turn back), fallen (be dropped, be fired, be killed, be made, be mentioned, be passed, be pronounced, be uttered, come down, decrease, descend, die, drop, fall, fall off, flop, halyards, hang, impinge, lower, pitch, pitfalls, slip, slump, to fall (fell, topple, traps, tumble). (various references)

Greek 

βουλιάζω (go under, sag, sink), πέφτω (blow down, come on, crash, drop off, fall, lapse, plonk, plunge, slump, slumped in a chair, take a dive, topple, tumble), δύω (set). (various references)

Haitian Creole

desann. (various references)

Hebrew 

לר�"ת (come down, descend, down, fall, sag, settle, subside). (various references)

Hungarian

raktár (berth, depository, depot, dump, godown, hold, magazine, repository, stock, stock room, stockpile, storage, store, store room, storehouse, warehouse, yard), lemegy (descend, sank, set, sunk, to be down, to descend, to go down, to sink), lejön (come down, descend, take off, to be down, to come down, to come off, to get down, to get off), leereszkedik (condescend, descend, to climb down, to condescend, to deflate, to descend, to drop to earth), elsüllyed (sank, sunk, to go down, to merge, to settle down, to sink, to slump, to submerge), csökkenés (abatement, attenuation, decline, decrease, diminution, droop, easement, lessening, letdown, loss, reduce, reduction, remission, shrinkage, shrinking, subsidence, waste), alászáll (descend, sank, sunk, to sink). (various references)

Indonesian

turun (descend, dismount, drop). (various references)

Inuktitut

aqqaqtuq (to go down). (various references)

Italian

scendere (alight, come down, decrease, descend, dip, dismount, drop, fall, get, get down, get off, get out, go, hang down, lower oneself, sink, slope, step down, to go down), diminuire (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, lessen, reduce, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

九州へ下る (to go down to Kyushu), 坂�'下りる (to go down a slope, to go downhill), 傾ぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane), 傾く (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to decline, to go down, to heel over, to incline toward, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to trend toward, to wane), 下す (to let go down, to lower), 下り立つ (to go down and stand), 丘�'下る (to go down a hill). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おか�'く� る (to go down a hill), おりたつ (to go down and stand), きゅうしゅうへく� る (to go down to Kyushu), く� す (to let go down, to lower), さか�'おりる (to go down a slope, to go downhill), かたぶく (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to decline, to go down, to heel over, to incline toward, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to trend toward, to wane), かたむく (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to decline, to go down, to heel over, to incline toward, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to trend toward, to wane), かたぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane), かしぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), traih (abate, abatement, decrement, diminish, efflux, flow away, flow out, go off, low water, make, make of ebb, ooze away, sink, subside, subsidence), goll sheese (decline, descending, descent, fall away, pass down, sinking). (various references)

Maya

eem (time, to go down). (various references)

Occitan

davalar (descend, get down). (various references)

Papiamen

bai abou (descend, get off), baha (descend, get off). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay ownday

Polish

zejść. (various references)

Portuguese

cair (collapse, drop, fall, flump, founder, hang, keel over, lapse, pelt, plump, prey, prostrate, sink, sleet, topple), baixar (come down, down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, issue, let down, let up, lower, pull down, recede, reduce, sink, subside, take down, tone down, turn down). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

descer, desça. (various references)

Romanian

slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), se scufunda (dive, duck, founder, go to the bottom, go under, ground, sink), scãpãta (decline, go under, ruin, set), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), rãmâne (abide, continue, dwell, keep, Lodge, remain, rest, stand, stay), pleca în concediu, descinde (descent, disembark, dismount, issue), decãdea (decay, decline, deteriorate, dilapidate, fall, fall into decay, go to seed, lapse, putrefy, rot, ruin, run to seed), coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, lower, move down, reduce, suppress), apune (decline, die, disappear, droop, fade, set, sink), antrepozit (depot, repository, storehouse, warehouse, wharf), a-şi termina studiile universitare. (various references)

Russian 

спускаться (alight, come down, descend, get down, get off). (various references)

Scottish

tearnaich (descend, get off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaći (enter, get on, go behind, round, set), splasnuti (dwindle), sići (alight, climb down, come down, descend, get down, get off, get out, light, step down), potonuti (founder, sink), opasti (ebb, fall off, fall out, slump, subside). (various references)

Spanish

descender (accrue, come, derive, descend, fall, fall away, get off, like, originate, ramp, result, sink), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references)

Sranan

saka (bag, descend, get off, sack). (various references)

Swedish

gå ner (descend, down, fall off, get down, reduce, set), sjunka (decline, descend, dip, drop, fall, founder, go under, lower, sag, sink), minska (abate, allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, lapse, lessen, let up, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane), besegras. (various references)

Tagalog

bumaba. (various references)

Turkish

geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), gitgide çökmek, kötüleşmek (deteriorate, get worse, retrograde, retrogress, sink, worsen), alçalmak (abase oneself, bastardize, derogate, descend, dip, drop, ebb, get off, set, sink, stoop, subside), batmak (be in carey street, be on the wane, be swamped with, belly up, break, burst up, cave, crash, decline, dip, fail, founder, go bankrupt, go over the cliff, go to rack and ruin, go under, gravitate, hang, plunge, set, sink, slide into, submerge, swim like a brick, wane), beğenilmek (be approved of, get across, sell, win recognition), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), üniversiteden ayrılmak, inmek (alight, climb down, come down, decrease, descend, dismount, ease off, fall, fall away, get off, light, sink, step down, step off, step out, subside into, take off), yenilmek (go to the wall, score under, smother, succumb, take a beating), kesilmek (be cut, be interrupted, become, cease, close down, clot, Curdle, die away, die down, drop, dry up, go off, go sour, intermit, let up, set, shear, sour, stop, surcease, turn sour), mahvolmak (be destroyed, be perished with, be ruined, canker, go phut, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to ruin, go to the dogs, go west, lie in ruins, shipwreck, smash, smash up), onaylanmak (be approved, go through, meet with approval, pass), perişan olmak, tatile çıkmak (go away for the holidays, go on holiday, holiday), yatağa düşmek (be laid up with, be taken ill, come down with, fall, fall ill, take ill, take to one's bed), yazılmak (be down for, be enroled, be enrolled, enrol, enroll, enter, register, sign up), hastalanmak (ail, be sickening for, be taken ill, become ill, fall, fall ill, fall sick, get ill, sicken, take ill). (various references)

Ukrainian

спускатися (alight, come down, descend, get down, hang down, walk down), потонути. (various references)

Welsh

machlud (set, setting). (various references)

Yucatec

eemel (descend, get off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Go Down" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: godown. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: godown.

-2 letters: dong, down, good, goon, gowd, gown, wood.

-3 letters: dog, don, dow, god, goo, nod, nog, noo, now, own, wog, won, woo.

-4 letters: do, go, no, od, on, ow, wo.

+1 letter: godowns, wooding.

+2 letters: kingwood.

+3 letters: dewooling, greenwood, kingwoods, wrongdoer.

+4 letters: greenwoods, groundwood, groundwork, orangewood, springwood, wordmonger, wrongdoers, wrongdoing.

+5 letters: belowground, downloading, groundwoods, groundworks, hoodwinking, orangewoods, springwoods, woodcarving, woodcutting, woodworking, wordmongers, wrongdoings.