go down

1. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way (synset 201974840)
   "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
   is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
   subtypes:

   • prolapse - slip or fall out of place, as of body parts
   • abseil, rappel, rope down - descend by means of a rappel
   • dismount, get down, get off, light, unhorse - alight from (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
   • crash - fall or come down violently
   • flop - fall suddenly and abruptly
   • 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
   same as: come down, descend, fall
2. Go under (synset 201993887)
   "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
   is a type of: come down, descend, fall, go down - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   subtypes:

   • settle, subside - sink down or precipitate
   • founder - sink below the surface
   • submerge, submerse - sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
   same as: go under, settle, sink
   verb group: sink - cause to sink
3. Grow smaller (synset 200432779)
   "Interest in the project waned"
   is a type of: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
   subtypes:

   • dip - go down momentarily
   • wear on - pass slowly (of time)
   • drop - go down in value
   same as: decline, wane
4. Be recorded or remembered (synset 202739681)
   "She will go down as the first feminist"
5. Be ingested (synset 201207951)
   "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"
6. Be defeated (synset 201102277)
   "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
   is a type of: lose - fail to win
7. Disappear beyond the horizon (synset 201974660)
   "the sun sets early these days"
   referred to in: astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
   is a type of: come down, descend, fall, go down - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   same as: go under, set
8. Stop operating (synset 200435872)
   "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
   is a type of: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad - stop operating or functioning
   same as: crash

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