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Noun go down has 1 sense

godown - a warehouse in the East
--₁ is a kind of warehouse, storage warehouse

Verb go down has 8 senses

descend, fall, go down, come down - 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"
--₁ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
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The airplane is sure to go down
sink, settle, go down, go under - go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
--₂ is one way to descend, fall, go down, come down
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decline, go down, wane - grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
--₃ is one way to decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
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go down - be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"
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go down - be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"
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go down - be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
--₆ is one way to lose
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set, go down, go under - disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days"
--₇ is one way to descend, fall, go down, come down
Sample sentence:
The moon will soon go down
crash, go down - stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
--₈ is one way to fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
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