going under

1. 1.

   (of a ship) sinking

   Synonymsfoundering

   Broadersinking

   ship

Questions about going under

What does going under mean?

going under means "(of a ship) sinking".

What is another word for going under?

Close synonyms include foundering. 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 going under a common word?

going under is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.