go down
1. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way (Freq. 11)
- The temperature is going down
- The barometer is falling
- The curtain fell on the diva
- Her hand went up and then fell again
• Syn:
descend, fall, come down
• Ant:
rise (for: fall), ascend (for: descend)
• See Also:
fall in (for: fall)
• Derivationally related forms:
fall (for: fall), descendant (for: descend), descendent (for: descend), descent (for: descend)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
prolapse, rappel, abseil, rope down, unhorse,
dismount, light, get off, get down, avalanche, roll down,
dive, plunge, plunk, set, go under, decline,
slump, correct, precipitate, sink, subside, crash,
flop, tumble, topple, drop, plop, pitch,
alight, climb down, settle, pounce, swoop, drip,
cascade, cascade down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- The airplane is sure to go down
2. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
sink, settle, go under
• Ant:
float (for: sink)
• See Also:
sink in (for: sink)
• Derivationally related forms:
sinker (for: sink), sinking (for: sink)
• Hypernyms:
descend, fall, come down
• Hyponyms:
subside, settle, founder, submerge, submerse
• Verb Group:
sink
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. grow smaller (Freq. 3)
- Interest in the project waned
• Syn:
decline, wane
• Derivationally related forms:
wane (for: wane), waning (for: wane), decline (for: decline)
• Hypernyms:
decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
• Hyponyms:
dip, wear on, drop
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
4. be recorded or remembered (Freq. 2)
- She will go down as the first feminist
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
5. be ingested (Freq. 1)
- This wine sure goes down well
- The food wouldn't go down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun
6. be defeated (Freq. 1)
- If America goes down, the free world will go down, too
• Hypernyms:
lose
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
7. disappear beyond the horizon
- the sun sets early these days
• Syn:
set, go under
• Ant:
rise (for: set)
• Topics:
astronomy, uranology
• Hypernyms:
descend, fall, come down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- The moon will soon go down
8. stop operating
- My computer crashed last night
- The system goes down at least once a week
• Syn:
crash
• Derivationally related forms:
crash (for: crash)
• Hypernyms:
fail, go bad, give way, die, give out,
conk out, go, break, break down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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