GO DOWN


Meaning of GO DOWN in English

Function: 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 : to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary.      Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка.