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GO DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grow smaller
Example:
Interest in the project waned
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go down"):
dip (go down momentarily)
wear on (pass slowly (of time))
drop (go down in value)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stop operating
Example:
The system goes down at least once a week
Synonyms:
crash; go down
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be defeated
Example:
If America goes down, the free world will go down, too
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
lose (fail to win)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Be ingested
Example:
The food wouldn't go down
Classified under:
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Sense 5
Meaning:
Disappear beyond the horizon
Example:
the sun sets early these days
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Domain category:
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The moon will soon go down
Sense 6
Meaning:
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
Example:
Her hand went up and then fell again
Synonyms:
come down; descend; fall; go down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go down"):
cascade; cascade down (rush down in big quantities, like a cascade)
drip (fall in drops)
pounce; swoop (move down on as if in an attack)
go down; go under; settle; sink (go under)
alight; climb down (come down)
pitch (fall or plunge forward)
plop (drop with the sound of something falling into water)
drop (to fall vertically)
topple; tumble (fall down, as if collapsing)
flop (fall suddenly and abruptly)
crash (fall or come down violently)
sink; subside (descend into or as if into some soft substance or place)
precipitate (fall vertically, sharply, or headlong)
correct; decline; slump (go down in value)
go down; go under; set (disappear beyond the horizon)
dive; plunge; plunk (drop steeply)
avalanche; roll down (gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow)
dismount; get down; get off; light; unhorse (alight from (a horse))
abseil; rappel; rope down (descend by means of a rappel)
prolapse (slip or fall out of place, as of body parts)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to go down
Sense 7
Meaning:
Go under
Example:
The raft sank and its occupants drowned
Synonyms:
go down; go under; settle; sink
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Verb group:
sink (cause to sink)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go down"):
settle; subside (sink down or precipitate)
founder (sink below the surface)
submerge; submerse (sink below the surface; go under or as if under water)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 8
Meaning:
Be recorded or remembered
Example:
She will go down as the first feminist
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
The mayor pressed forward and said: “I will go down first, and look about me, and if things promise well I’ll call you.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He knew how to work, and the citadels would go down before him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He did not go down again.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As Jo received her good-night kiss, Mrs. March whispered gently, "My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger. Forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"That's for you, nurse," said he; "you can go down; I'll give Miss Jane a lecture till you come back."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We go down hill to it for half a mile, and it is a pity, for it would not be an ill-looking place if it had a better approach.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Hydropower generation — that meets much of the region’s electricity needs — will significantly go down after 2060.
(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)
Malone and I will go down again, therefore, and we will fetch up the four rifles, together with Gomez and the other.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Twenty-two guineas is rather heavy for a single costume. However there appears to be nothing more to learn, and we may now go down to the scene of the crime.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You've seen 'em, maybe, hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen p'inting 'em out as they go down with the tide. 'Who's that?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
