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.

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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.

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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]

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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.

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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.

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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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