GO DOWN


Meaning of GO DOWN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ intransitive verb ]

Date: 14th century

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 especially in posterity

will he go down in history as a great president

4. British : to leave a university

5.

a. : to undergo defeat or failure

b. chiefly British : to become incapacitated

went down with…acute tonsillitis — Helen Cathcart

6. slang : to take place : happen

- go down on

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.