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go down

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. descend, fall, go down, come downverb

    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

    "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

  2. sink, settle, go down, go underverb

    go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

  3. decline, go down, waneverb

    grow smaller

    "Interest in the project waned"

  4. go downverb

    be recorded or remembered

    "She will go down as the first feminist"

  5. go downverb

    be ingested

    "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"

  6. go downverb

    be defeated

    "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

  7. set, go down, go underverb

    disappear beyond the horizon

    "the sun sets early these days"

  8. crash, go downverb

    stop operating

    "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

Wiktionary

  1. go downverb

    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

  2. go downverb

    To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.

  3. go downverb

    To fall (down), fall to the floor.

  4. go downverb

    To stop functioning, to go offline.

  5. go downverb

    To be received or accepted.

  6. go downverb

    To be recorded or remembered (as).

  7. go downverb

    To perform oral sex.

  8. go downverb

    To take place, happen.

  9. go downverb

    To disappear below the horizon of a plane; to set.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. go down

    The name given to store-houses and magazines in the East Indies.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go down in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of go down in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Pitaud:

    One challenge is to provide economic opportunities so farmers don't have to cut down trees.

  2. Cindy Howells:

    We know this dinosaur is (was born) 200 million years ago, to within half a million years or so, the rocks down here we've been studying for quite a long time now and we can do direct comparisons with the ages of rocks in Austria, which is where the transition between the Triassic and the Jurassic boundaries is precisely located.

  3. Allen Sandeep:

    Oil going down is positive on the fiscal side for us, we are expecting some major decline in subsidy burdens for the government. And also people are trying to gauge what might actually come out of the economic conference in March.

  4. Mary Jo Kreitzer:

    I think it follows the line of so many studies that have been coming out about mindfulness-based stress reduction over the last 15 years. Literally hundreds of studies have come out, mindfulness is a way to slow down and be in the present moment and that's what mindfulness training is, so in a mindfulness class people focus on breathing and relaxation and that's sort of how they ease into a practice of meditation.

  5. Kathy Bazoian Phelps:

    It has not slowed down even remotely since Bernie Madoff, it amazes me month after month the creative things that people come up with to defraud other people out of their dollars.


Translations for go down

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  • انزلArabic
  • случвам се, намалея, запомням, приемам, сляза, слизам, спускам се, спра, приема, запомня, случа се, намалявам, падна, помня, падам, спирамBulgarian
  • klesatCzech
  • skeDanish
  • absteigen, hinabsteigen, abnehmenGerman
  • κατεβαίνωGreek
  • baisser, descendre, sucer, tomber en panne, diminuer, tomberFrench
  • ירדHebrew
  • 落ちるJapanese
  • degrediorLatin
  • afdalenDutch
  • descerPortuguese
  • уменьшиться, происходить, снижаться, спуститься, опускаться, снизиться, спускаться, уменьшаться, опуститься, сосатьRussian

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