verb
1. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way (Freq. 11)
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The temperature is going down
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The barometer is falling
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The curtain fell on the diva
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Her hand went up and then fell again
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fall (for: ↑fall), ↑descendant (for: ↑descend), ↑descendent (for: ↑descend), ↑descent (for: ↑descend)
• Hyponyms:
↑prolapse, ↑rappel, ↑abseil, ↑rope down, ↑unhorse, ↑dismount, ↑light, ↑get off, ↑get down, ↑avalanche, ↑roll down, ↑dive, ↑plunge, ↑plunk, ↑set, ↑go under, ↑decline, ↑slump, ↑correct, ↑precipitate, ↑sink, ↑subside, ↑crash, ↑flop, ↑tumble, ↑topple, ↑drop, ↑plop, ↑pitch, ↑alight, ↑climb down, ↑settle, ↑pounce, ↑swoop, ↑drip, ↑cascade, ↑cascade down
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Somebody ——s
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The airplane is sure to go down
2. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" (Freq. 5)
• Verb Group: ↑sink
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Somebody ——s
3. grow smaller (Freq. 3)
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Interest in the project waned
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
4. be recorded or remembered (Freq. 2)
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She will go down as the first feminist
• Verb Frames:
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Something is ——ing PP
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Somebody ——s PP
5. be ingested (Freq. 1)
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This wine sure goes down well
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The food wouldn't go down
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Something ——s Adjective/Noun
6. be defeated (Freq. 1)
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If America goes down, the free world will go down, too
• Hypernyms: ↑lose
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Somebody ——s
7. disappear beyond the horizon
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the sun sets early these days
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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The moon will soon go down
8. stop operating
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My computer crashed last night
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The system goes down at least once a week
• Syn: ↑crash
• Hypernyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
Useful english dictionary. 2012.