go down
verb- To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. · go down to the grave
- Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon. · It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.
- To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one. · The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.
- To fall (down); to fall to the floor. · The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
- To crash. · The plane went down thirty miles from shore.
- To sink. · SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland.
- To be received or accepted. · The news didn't go down well with her parents.
- To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison. · Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year.
From the library
Heads below!” (a loud crash)—“Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I fancy—Who’s to go down the chimney?—Nay, _I_ shan’t!
_You_ do it!—_That_ I won’t, then!—Bill’s to go down—Here, Bill!
the master says you’re to go down the chimney!”
He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
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