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go down
verb
- also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a lower place or level; sink, decline, decrease, etc
prices are going down
the path goes down to the sea
the ship went down this morning
- to be defeated; lose
- to be remembered or recorded (esp in the phrase go down in history )
- to be received
his speech went down well
- (of food) to be swallowed
- bridge to fail to make the number of tricks previously contracted for
- to leave a college or university at the end of a term or the academic year
- usually foll by with to fall ill; be infected
- (of a celestial body) to sink or set
the sun went down before we arrived
- slang.to go to prison, esp for a specified period
he went down for six months
- slang.to happen
- go down on slang.to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on
Example Sentences
Will David, a Briton living in Lisbon, was having a haircut and beard trim in the basement of a barber when the power went down.
We might actually be doing something that鈥檒l go down in history, not just the big battle sequence, but also just the iconography of that Joel scene at the end.
It鈥檚 impossible to know if fatigue was the difference in clean looks at the rim for Doncic and James that both didn鈥檛 go down.
The violin was used to play the hymn Nearer My God To Thee as the ship went down.
鈥淚 went down the rabbit hole and started looking up all the different cancers.鈥
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