go down

verbs

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"

come down, descend, fall, go down

go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

go down, go under, settle, sink

grow smaller

"Interest in the project waned"

decline, go down, wane

be recorded or remembered

"She will go down as the first feminist"

go down

be ingested

"This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"

go down

be defeated

"If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

go down

is a type of (narrower)

fail to win

"We lost the battle but we won the war"

disappear beyond the horizon

"the sun sets early these days"

go down, go under, set

stop operating

"My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

crash, go down