go down

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move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
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go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
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grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
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be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"
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be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn''t go down"
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be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
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disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days"
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stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"