English verb: go down | |||
1. | go down (motion) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | ||
Samples | The temperature is going down. The barometer is falling. The curtain fell on the diva. Her hand went up and then fell again. | ||
Examples | The airplane is sure to go down | ||
Synonyms | come down, descend, fall | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | go, locomote, move, travel | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | abseil, alight, avalanche, cascade, cascade down, climb down, correct, crash, decline, dismount, dive, drip, drop, flop, get down, get off, go down, go down, go under, go under, light, pitch, plop, plunge, plunk, pounce, precipitate, prolapse, rappel, roll down, rope down, set, settle, sink, sink, slump, subside, swoop, topple, tumble, unhorse | ||
Antonyms | ascend, go up, rise, move up, lift, arise, come up, uprise, go up | ||
2. | go down (motion) go under, | ||
Samples | The raft sank and its occupants drowned. | ||
Synonyms | go under, settle, sink | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | come down, descend, fall, go down | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | founder, settle, submerge, submerse, subside | ||
Verb group | sink | ||
Antonyms | float, swim | ||
3. | go down (change) grow smaller | ||
Samples | Interest in the project waned. | ||
Synonyms | decline, wane | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | decrease, diminish, fall, lessen | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | dip, drop, wear on | ||
4. | go down (stative) be recorded or remembered | ||
Samples | She will go down as the first feminist. | ||
Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP. Somebody ----s PP | ||
5. | go down (consumption) be ingested | ||
Samples | This wine sure goes down well. The food wouldn't go down. | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Something ----s Adjective/Noun | ||
6. | go down (competition) be defeated | ||
Samples | If America goes down, the free world will go down, too. | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | lose | ||
7. | go down (motion) disappear beyond the horizon | ||
Samples | The sun sets early these days. | ||
Examples | The moon will soon go down | ||
Synonyms | go under, set | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | come down, descend, fall, go down | ||
Domain category | astronomy, uranology | ||
Antonyms | uprise, ascend, come up, rise | ||
8. | go down (change) stop operating | ||
Samples | My computer crashed last night. The system goes down at least once a week. | ||
Synonyms | crash | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | ||