Synonyms for go down
go down

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1. go down

   Synonyms:
   fail, fall, get the worst of, go under, surrender

   Antonyms:
   bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, bruise, castigate, chastise, conquer, cudgel, defeat, flog, overcome, pommel, pound, scourge, smite, spank, strike, surpass, switch, thrash, vanquish, whip, worst

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1. descend, fall, go down, come downverb

   move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

   "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

   Synonyms:
   crash, boil down, shine, light, accrue, diminish, set, strike, devolve, sicken, flow, precipitate, settle, go under, reduce, condescend, lessen, come down, sink, deign, pass, descend, come, fall, return, decrease, derive, decline, wane, hang, fall down

2. sink, settle, go down, go underverb

   go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

   Synonyms:
   settle, square up, dip, make up, patch up, nail down, drop down, sink, settle down, square off, decline, lapse, slide down, descend, come down, root, determine, crash, steady down, go under, subside, reconcile, fall, finalise, ensconce, wane, get back, pass, bury, adjudicate, conciliate, decide, drop, resolve, locate, fall off, go by, set, finalize, slump, take root

3. decline, go down, waneverb

   grow smaller

   "Interest in the project waned"

   Synonyms:
   reject, come down, set, refuse, go under, settle, correct, sink, pass up, descend, fall, worsen, crash, decline, wane, slump, turn down

4. go downverb

   be recorded or remembered

   "She will go down as the first feminist"

   Synonyms:
   fall, settle, set, come down, go under, crash, descend, sink, wane, decline

5. go downverb

   be ingested

   "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"

   Synonyms:
   fall, settle, set, come down, go under, crash, descend, sink, wane, decline

6. go downverb

   be defeated

   "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

   Synonyms:
   fall, settle, set, come down, go under, crash, descend, sink, wane, decline

7. set, go down, go underverb

   disappear beyond the horizon

   "the sun sets early these days"

   Synonyms:
   plant, settle, go under, descend, dress, place, prepare, mark, put, localize, go by, coiffe, fix, sink, fructify, gear up, jell, come down, decline, position, arrange, crash, define, specify, lay, correct, countersink, do, determine, coiffure, wane, lay out, coif, ready, set up, congeal, sic, fall, limit, set, typeset, adjust, rig, pose, localise

8. crash, go downverb

   stop operating

   "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

   Synonyms:
   barge in, come down, set, doss down, go under, settle, gate-crash, break apart, doss, sink, descend, fall, break up, ram, crash, decline, wane, dash

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1. • Astronomy
   • Decrease
   • Descend
   • Fail
   • Lose
   • Move

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1. go down

   Synonyms:
   descend

2. go down

   Synonyms:
   be swallowed

3. go down

   Synonyms:
   (Low.) be received, be admitted, pass current

4. go down

   Synonyms:
   fail, come to nothing, come to nought

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1. Jeffrey Gundlach:

   I still believe that there is a danger of repeat of a Treasury meltup that 2014 did end up bringing, particularly into the crescendo of October 15, if something can't go up, it has to go down. Yields can't seem to go up. They might go down. And if they go down any amount again, if the 10-year goes below 2 percent, even below 2.20 percent, that's the line in the sand I am talking about.

2. Avinash Vazirani:

   Oil prices come off, it means (India's) import bill comes down, their subsidies go down... If you assume a 40 percent drop in crude oil, and crude is down more than 60 pct, GDP goes up 1 pct, inflation comes down 3.2 to 4 pct.

3. Henry Cuellar:

   I’m sure her planners told her that if you’re going to go down to the border, go to something that’s safer to go to, that is, politically safer, the epicenter is down there in the Lower Rio Grande, the lower part of my district down there. If you look at the numbers that are down there compared to El Paso, you’re not going to get a true picture of what’s happening.

4. Bob Nicholls:

   I told everyone that we were going to go down the stairs very quietly. But with 150-odd people on a staircase, we were like sitting ducks. Two of my guys went ahead to make sure it was safe, we had two guys at the back. We'd move down to one floor, check the floor and then get everyone down. We did the same on the next floor. It took quite a while to get everyone down. We got out at around 3 or 4 in the morning, we were asked to take off our shoes to avoid making noise because we never knew if there were still terrorists around who could hear us. No one spoke either.

5. Swordfish:

   Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down.