I. intransitive verb
1.
a. : to proceed or move to or as if to a lower place
some went down to the sea in ships — Ps 107:23 (Revised Standard Version)
went down to the cellar to check the furnace
b. : to lead to or as if to a lower place
a path goes down to the village
c. : to fall to or as if to the ground
the plane went down in flames
the boxer went down for a count of eight
d. of a heavenly body : to go below the horizon : set
e. : to become submerged : sink
the ship went down with all hands aboard
saved as he went down for the third time
f. of mumps : to descend into the testes
2. : to admit of being swallowed
the medicine went down smoothly enough
3. : to undergo defeat or overthrow
if America goes down we take the entire free world down with us — Sidney Hyman
4.
a. : to find acceptance
had an instinct … of knowing what answers went down well — Elizabeth Taylor
b. : to come to be considered or remembered especially in posterity
that story will go down as the best fairy tale I ever wrote — T.E.N.Driberg
would go down in history as a nice try — R.M.Yoder
5.
a. : to undergo a decline or decrease
his temperature went down this morning
the stock market is going down
the number of members has gone down
b. : to become less violent : subside
the wind went down during the night
6. Britain
a. : to leave a college or university
b. : to graduate from a college or university
7. : to extend in time
the first volume goes down to the end of the war
8. : to become sick
are always going down … with that malaria — Eve Langley
9.
a. : to fail to make one's contract in a card game
b. : to lie legally exposed on the table — used of the dummy hand in contract bridge
c. : to meld some or all of one's cards in rummy
II. intransitive verb
slang : to take place : happen
I'll tell you everythin' that went down — V.E.Smith
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