Dictionary entry details
• GO DOWN (verb)
Meaning:
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
come down; descend; go down; fall
Context examples:
The temperature is going down / The barometer is falling / The curtain fell on the diva / Her hand went up and then fell again
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go down"):
topple; tumble (fall down, as if collapsing)
drop (to fall vertically)
plop (drop with the sound of something falling into water)
pitch (fall or plunge forward)
alight; climb down (come down)
go down; go under; settle; sink (go under,)
pounce; swoop (move down on as if in an attack)
drip (fall in drops)
cascade; cascade down (rush down in big quantities, like a cascade)
flop (fall suddenly and abruptly)
crash (fall or come down violently)
prolapse (slip or fall out of place, as of body parts)
abseil; rappel; rope down (lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside)
dismount; get down; get off; light; unhorse (get off (a horse))
avalanche; roll down (gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow)
dive; plunge; plunk (drop steeply)
go down; go under; set (disappear beyond the horizon)
correct; decline; slump (go down in value)
precipitate (fall vertically, sharply, or headlong)
sink; subside (descend into or as if into some soft substance or place)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to go down
Meaning:
Go under,
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
go under; go down; sink; settle
Context example:
The raft sank and its occupants drowned
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go down"):
settle; subside (sink down or precipitate)
founder (sink below the surface)
submerge; submerse (sink below the surface; go under or as if under water)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Grow smaller
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
wane; go down; decline
Context example:
Interest in the project waned
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go down"):
dip (go down momentarily)
wear on (pass slowly (of time))
drop (go down in value)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Be recorded or remembered
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
She will go down as the first feminist
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Be ingested
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Context examples:
This wine sure goes down well / The food wouldn't go down
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Meaning:
Be defeated
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Context example:
If America goes down, the free world will go down, too
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
lose (fail to win)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Disappear beyond the horizon
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
go under; go down; set
Context example:
the sun sets early these days
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Domain category:
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The moon will soon go down
Meaning:
Stop operating
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
go down; crash
Context examples:
My computer crashed last night / The system goes down at least once a week
Hypernyms (to "go down" is one way to...):
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
