go down

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:

fall

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:

get down

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:

lose

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:

go up

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:

set

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?'

Syn:

happen

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Synonyms:

Descend / Be swallowed / Be received, be admitted, pass current, be swallowed / Fail, perish, be destroyed, come to nothing, come to nought

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