go down
— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
(GO DOWN)
UK also go down sth to move down to a lower level or place:
He went down on his knees and begged for forgiveness.
He first went down the mines when he was 17.
The plane went down (= fell to the ground because of an accident, bomb, etc.) ten minutes after take-off.
Everyone took to the lifeboats when the ship started to go down (= sink).
Could I have a glass of water to help these pills go down (= to help me swallow them)?
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- Would you go down to the basement and fetch me a book please?
- The submarine went down all the way to the sea floor.
- The elevator was going down when the fire alarm sounded.
- It's quicker to go down using the escalator.
- That joke went down like a lead balloon.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Raising and lowering
- elevate
- elevated
- erect
- hike sth up
- hoick
- hoist
- jack
- jack sth up
- leverage
- lower
- pick sb/sth up
- prick (sth) up
- pry
- put
- raise
- ride
- ride up
- run
- scoop sth/sb up
- winch
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(REACH)
to reach or go as far as:
Its roots can go down three metres.
This path goes down to the river.
Go down to (= read as far as) the bottom of the page.
More examples
- That lift doesn't go down to the basement.
- The steps go all the way down to the bottom.
- The rope goes down to the bottom of the cliff.
- I think the election will go right down to the wire.
- They took the road that went down to the dock.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- hit
- hove
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch invasion
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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