Decrease, get smaller
Meanings
- Decrease, get smaller (intransitive, International English)
- Sink (intransitive, International English)
- Sunset (intransitive, International English)
- Be sent to to prison (intransitive, International English)
- Become recorded as or known as (intransitive, International English)
- Be eaten or swallowed (intransitive, International English)
- Fall to the ground (intransitive, International English)
- Happen, take place (intransitive, International English)
- working, especially computers (intransitive, International English)
- Become dimmer (intransitive, International English)
- people, in terms of their reaction (intransitive, International English)
Examples
- The price of scanners has GONE DOWN recently.
- The Titanic WENT DOWN after it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
- The sun WENT DOWN at seven o'clock.
- The disappointing news WENT DOWN badly with the team members.
- It WENT DOWN as the worst day in the history of the company.
- The medicine WENT DOWN easily.
- The boxer WENT DOWN in the second round.
- The police thought that a big crime was GOING DOWN that night.
- The computer system WENT DOWN for an hour last night.
- The lights WENT DOWN and the audience stopped talking.
- My joke WENT DOWN very badly.