go down

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsdescendfallcome down

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerprolapserappelunhorseavalanchedivesetdeclineprecipitatesinkcrash
2. 2.

   go under

   “The raft sank and its occupants drowned”

   Synonymssinksettlego under

   Broaderdescend

   Narrowersubsidefoundersubmerge
3. 3.

   grow smaller

   “Interest in the project waned”

   Synonymsdeclinewane

   Broaderdecrease

   Narrowerdipwear ondrop
4. 4.

   be recorded or remembered

   “She will go down as the first feminist”
5. 5.

   be ingested

   “This wine sure goes down well”

   “The food wouldn't go down”
6. 6.

   be defeated

   “If America goes down, the free world will go down, too”

   Broaderlose
7. 7.

   disappear beyond the horizon

   “the sun sets early these days”

   Synonymssetgo under

   Broaderdescend

   astronomy

8. 8.

   stop operating

   “My computer crashed last night”

   “The system goes down at least once a week”

   Synonymscrash

   Broaderfail

Questions about go down

What does go down mean?

go down means "move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for go down?

Close synonyms include descend, fall, come down, sink, settle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is go down a common word?

go down is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.