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Go down

verb

Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way. Synonyms: come down, descend, fall. "The barometer is falling" , "The curtain fell on the diva" , "Her hand went up and then fell again"

Go under,. Synonyms: go under, settle, sink.

Grow smaller. Synonyms: decline, wane.

Be recorded or remembered.

Be ingested. "The food wouldn't go down"

Be defeated.

Disappear beyond the horizon. Synonyms: go under, set.

Stop operating. Synonym: crash. "The system goes down at least once a week"

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"Go down" Quotes from Famous Books

... the lobby again, he would immediately move for his commitment to Newgate. At the same time Holroyd called upon him to remove the blue cockade from his hat. Lord George timidly obeyed the order, and did not venture to go down into the lobby again; contenting himself with addressing the mob from the gallery stairs; denouncing in his harangues from thence the more Popishly inclined members of the house. Their yells and menaces continued, but undeterred by them the house ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... going riding with Mr. Halliday," said the little fellow, "and I heard mother say she and Mrs. Halliday were going to make orange shortcake to-day, so they won't want us around. We can go down and make the raft and have a sail. Won't ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South • Laura Lee Hope

... definite turning-point: that at which the empire began to go down. In it the three main causes of the ruin of the ancient world appeared: the first of the pestilences that depopulated it; the first incursion of the barbarians that broke it down from without; the new religion that, with its loyalty primarily to a church, an imperium ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

... go down among them—far among the moorlands and the rocks—far in the darkness of the terrible streets; these feeble florets are lying with all their fresh leaves torn and their stems broken—will you never go down to them, not set them in order in their little fragrant beds, nor ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... it, proud, rich, powerful, then go down to Portiuncula, pass over to St. Damian, hasten to the Carceri, and you will understand the abyss that separates the ideal of Francis from that of the ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

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