1. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
2. stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
3. be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
4. be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn''t go down"
5. disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days"
6. 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"
7. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
8. be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"

Similar Words: decline, wane, crash, set, go under, descend, fall, come down, sink, settle

 

See Also: collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder, percolate, sink in, permeate, filter

 

Hyponyms: dip, wear on, drop, prolapse, rappel, abseil, rope down, unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down, avalanche, roll down, dive, plunge, plunk, set, go under, decline, slump, correct, precipitate, sink, subside, crash, flop, tumble, topple, plop, pitch, alight, climb down, settle, pounce, swoop, drip, cascade, cascade down, founder, submerge, submerse

 

Grouped Verbs: sink

 

Derivational Morphology: ebb, ebbing, wane, waning, decline, diminution, crash, fall, descent, sinker, sinking

 

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