go down

v 1: move downward but not necessarily all the way; "The

temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling";

"Real estate prices are coming down" [syn: {descend}, {fall},

{come down}] [ant: {rise}, {ascend}]

2: go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: {sink},

{settle}, {go under}] [ant: {float}]

3: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: {decline},

{wane}]

4: be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first

feminist"

5: be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food

wouldn't go down"

6: be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go

down, too"

7: disappear beyond the horizon; of celestial bodies such as

the sun and the moon [syn: {set}, {go under}] [ant: {rise}]

8: stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The

system goes down at least once a week" [syn: {crash}]