[go down] vi (14c) 1 a: to go below the horizon: set "the sun went down" b: to fall to or as if to the ground "the plane went down in flames" c: to become submerged: sink "the ship went down with all hands"
2: to admit of being swallowed "the medicine went down easily" 3 a: to find acceptance "will the plan go down with the farmers" b: to come to be remembered esp. in posterity "will he go down in history as a great president"
4. Brit: to leave a university
5. a: to undergo defeat or failure b chiefly Brit: to become incapacitated "went down with ... acute tonsillitis --Helen Cathcart"
6. slang: to take place: happen -- go down on : to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on