- go down
- 1) PHRASAL VERB If a price, level, or amount goes down, it becomes lower or less than it was.
[V P] Income from sales tax went down...
[V P amount] Crime has gone down 70 percent...
[V P from/to/by n] Average life expectancy went down from about 70 to 67.
Syn:2) PHRASAL VERB If you go down on your knees or on all fours, you lower your body until it is supported by your knees, or by your hands and knees.[V P on n] I went down on my knees and prayed for guidance.
Syn:3) PHRASAL VERB In sport, if a person or team goes down, they are defeated in a match or contest.[V P num] They went down 2-1 to Australia. [Also V P]
Syn:4) PHRASAL VERB In sport, if a team goes down, they move to a lower division in a league. [BRIT][V P] Only two go down at the end of this season.
Ant:5) PHRASAL VERB If you say that a remark, idea, or type of behaviour goes down in a particular way, you mean that it gets a particular kind of reaction from a person or group of people.[V P adv] Solicitors advised their clients that a tidy look went down well with the magistrates.
6) PHRASAL VERB When the sun goes down, it goes below the horizon.[V P] ...the glow left in the sky after the sun has gone down.
Syn:7) PHRASAL VERB If a ship goes down, it sinks. If a plane goes down, it crashes out of the sky.[V P] Their aircraft went down during a training exercise.
8) PHRASAL VERB If a computer goes down, it stops functioning temporarily.[V P] The main computers went down for 30 minutes.
9) PHRASAL VERB To go down means to happen. [INFORMAL][V P] `What's going down? Any ideas?'
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English dictionary. 2008.