Go Under

Definition: Go Under

Go Under

Verb

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

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

3. Be called; go by a certain name; "She goes by her maiden name again".

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

Synonyms: Go Under

Nomenclature

Be -called; Verb: take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of, be known by the name of, go under the name of, pass under the name of, rejoice in the name of.

Crosswords: Go Under

Please , don't have Drew make me go under that desk again (Whose Line Is It Anyway?; writing credit: Dan Patterson; Mark Leveson)

Now, I'm just going to go under the covers and take a little inventory (Neighbors; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Larry Gelbart)

Jack go under Limbo stick (Limbo Rock/Hand Jive; performing artist: Brave Combo)

I promise to go under it (Mr. Tambourine Man; performing artist: The Byrds; writing credit: Bob Dylan)

Books

• Australian 3.4-GHz Spectrum to Go Under the Hammer [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Diffuse knapweed just about go under and perhaps attached to the vehicle in the Lower John Day River area. Credit: Jerry Asher.

Economic History

Thailand

The new Thaksin government has stated its intention to increase the pace of state enterprise privatization . Draft legislation for a National Enterprise Holding Corporation (NEHC) is designed to set up a supervisory entity for state enterprise privatization . The NEHC, which will be 100 percent owned by the Ministry of Finance, will regulate state enterprises that have been converted into private companies under the 1999 State Enterprise Corporatization Act . The draft NEHC bill was slated to go under parliamentary review in August 2001. (references)

Expressions using "go under": go under an operation ♦ go under the knife ♦ go under the name of ♦ To go under. Additional references.

Albanian

zhytem (dip, dive, merge, pore, sink, soak, wallow), vdes (be dying, burst, croak, decease, depart, die, die away, die down, do in, end, evaporate, expire, give up the ghost, go to glory, go west, necrose, pack up, pass away, pass over, perish, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), mbytem (be drowned, choke, drown, drown oneself, get drowned, smother), marr fund (cease, crumple, finish, go to pieces). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرق (deluge, dip, drown, drowning, eject, founder, grub, relapse, shipwright, sink, sinking, submergence, swamp, wreck), ‏تخفى (lurk, masquerade, occult), ‏تخلف (be in arrears, be retarded, default, drag, drop behind, fall behind, go to sleep, lag, linger, loiter, lurk, retardation, retrograde, tardiness), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умирам (be dying, cash in, conk, cross the styx, depart, die, end, exit, expire, fade away, go west, kick in, kick off, kick up, mortify, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, peg out, pip out, pop off, quit the scene, snuff out, step off, step out, succumb, sup with pluto, wither), бивам забравен, пропадам (abyss, collapse, fail, fall through, go, go to the dogs, go wrong, lose), потъвам (be engulfed, be lost, go down, lock, plunge, sink, submerge, submerse, subside). (various references)

Czech

zkrachovat (come under hammer, crash, go bankrupt, go to pot, peg out, unstuck), potopit (plunge, scupper, scutum, sink), podlehnout (be defeated, give way, go down, shrink, succumb), klesnout (come down, decrease, drop, sink), jít ke dnu (go down). (various references)

Dutch

onder ... doorgaan. (various references)

Esperanto

iri sub. (various references)

French

se cacher (go in), passer par dessous, passer dans la clandestinité, couler, échouer (go away, go by the board). (various references)

German

gehen unter, untergehen (founder, perish, sink), scheitern (fail), passen unter, eingehen (shrinkage, take up), durchgehen unter. (various references)

Greek 

βυθίζομαι (sink), βουλιάζω (go down, sag, sink), περνώ από κάτω, πάω από κάτω, υπνωτίζομαι, χρεοκοπώ (crash, fail, go bankrupt), φαλιρίζω. (various references)

Hungarian

tönkremegy (to bung, to fold up, to go pop), lenyugszik a nap, elmerül (to merge), elbukik (to be ploughed, to get ploughed). (various references)

Italian

affondare (founder, sink). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

滅びる (to be ruined, to go under, to perish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おちぶれる (to be ruined, to come to ruin, to fall low, to go under), ほろびる (to be destroyed, to be ruined, to go under, to perish). (various references)

Manx

goll fo (founder, get under, set, submerge). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay erunday.(various references)

Portuguese

falir (be bankrupt, break, bust, crack, fail, go out of business, mammock, smash), afundar (deepen, immerse, scupper, sink, submerge, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Romanian

se scufunda (dive, duck, founder, go down, go to the bottom, ground, sink), se ruina (break, crash, decay, dilapidate, fall, flatten, ruin), scãpãta (decline, go down, ruin, set), pieri (die, disappear, expire, flee, lapse, perish), cãdea (appear, arrive, climb down, collapse, come down, drop, err, fail, fall, fall through, founder, have a fall, land, pitch, pluck, redound, ruin, sin, sink, slip down, slough away, slough off, strip, vote down), a-şi asuma (assume). (various references)

Russian 

разоряться, тонуть (drown), гибнуть (perish), погибать (die out, do for, perish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udaviti se (be drowned, drown, drown oneself, get drowned), propasti (fall in, fall through, go bust, go down the drain, go to pot, sink). (various references)

Spanish

hundirse (fall down, fall in, founder, give, go, go down, go phut, immerse, live, plunge, sag, sink, slump, subside, tumble down), fracasar (abort, break down, bust, come to grief, come unstuck, crush, fail, fall apart, fall down, fall through, founder, go awry, go phut, miscarry, pip), desaparecer (disappear, vanish), conocerse (get acquainted, meet, to get acquainted). (various references)

Swedish

sjunka (sink, sag), duka under (succumb). (various references)

Turkish

iflas etmek (be in carey street, belly up, break, burst up, bust, crash, fail, go bankrupt, go belly up, go bust, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to the wall, smash), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), 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 down, go over the cliff, go to rack and ruin, gravitate, hang, plunge, set, sink, slide into, submerge, swim like a brick, wane). (various references)

Ukrainian

розорятися (beggar oneself to), тонути (drown, sink), гинути (die out, flummox, perish, totter, wrack). (various references)

Misspellings

"Go Under" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gounder. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: guerdon, undergo.

-1 letter: drogue, enduro, gerund, gourde, ground, nudger, rogued, rouged, undoer.

-2 letters: drone, erugo, genro, goner, gored, gourd, nuder, nudge, redon, rogue, rouen, rouge, round, under, uredo, urged.

-3 letters: doer, doge, done, dong, dore, dour, dreg, drug, dune, dung, dure, durn, duro, ergo, euro, genu, goer, gone, gore, grue, gude, nerd, node, nude, nurd, ogre.

+1 letter: grounded, grounder, guerdons, gueridon, reground, trudgeon, underdog, undergod, unforged.

+2 letters: burgeoned, dangerous, detouring, devouring, greyhound, grounders, groundsel, guerdoned, gueridons, gunpowder, noseguard, outranged, roughened, scrounged, trudgeons, underdogs, undergods, undergoes, undergone, ungodlier, ungrouped.

+3 letters: bourgeoned, clangoured, coenduring, configured, curmudgeon, encouraged, foreground, foundering, greyhounds, groundless, groundsels, groundsmen, guerdoning, gunpowders, mouldering, noseguards, outgrinned, outreading, rebounding, redoubling, redounding, refounding, resounding, sandgrouse, underdoing, undergoing, ungrounded.