verb
- Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.
- usage: "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
- (v.) ()
- Grow smaller.
- usage: "Interest in the project waned"
- Be recorded or remembered.
- usage: "She will go down as the first feminist"
- Be ingested.
- usage: "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"
- Be defeated.
- usage: "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
- Disappear beyond the horizon.
- usage: "the sun sets early these days"
- Stop operating.
- usage: "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
- synonyms: crash
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