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View synonyms for go down

go down

verb

  1. also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a lower place or level; sink, decline, decrease, etc

    prices are going down

    the path goes down to the sea

    the ship went down this morning

  2. to be defeated; lose
  3. to be remembered or recorded (esp in the phrase go down in history )
  4. to be received

    his speech went down well

  5. (of food) to be swallowed
  6. bridge to fail to make the number of tricks previously contracted for
  7. to leave a college or university at the end of a term or the academic year
  8. usually foll by with to fall ill; be infected
  9. (of a celestial body) to sink or set

    the sun went down before we arrived

  10. slang.
    to go to prison, esp for a specified period

    he went down for six months

  11. slang.
    to happen
  12. go down on slang.
    to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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