go down

pronunciation

How to pronounce go down in British English: UK [ɡəʊ daʊn]word uk audio image

How to pronounce go down in American English: US [ɡoʊ daʊn] word us audio image

  • Verb:
    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
    go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
    grow smaller
    be recorded or remembered
    be ingested
    be defeated
    disappear beyond the horizon
    stop operating

Example

1. It seems that more helicopters go down than you might think .
2. The bankruptcy of lehman brothers in september 2008 will probably go down as the single most spectacular event in the humbling of wall street .
3. For this reason prices can supposedly never go down .
4. Then levels in the bloodstream start to go down .
5. The pills do not always go down easily .
6. Go down there and fight .
7. An overdamped system is assumed when the bubble burst meaning the land 's value did not go down to below 1 dollar .
8. The oil price can go down as well as up-and has been doing just that lately-while the fracking revolution is changing the gas business dramatically .
9. Once you go down that road you 're on your own no longer a productive member of a society built on rational thought .
10. It 's scary to go down that path which is why so few do .

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