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Noun: godown  gow'dawn
Usage: Asia
  1. (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse
Verb: go down
  1. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
    "The temperature is going down"
    - descend, fall, come down
     
  2. Go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
    - sink, settle, go under
     
  3. Grow smaller
    - decline, wane
     
  4. Be recorded or remembered
    "She will go down as the first feminist"
     
  5. Be ingested
    "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"
     
  6. Be defeated
    "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
     
  7. Disappear beyond the horizon
    - set, go under
     
  8. Stop operating
    "The system goes down at least once a week"
    - crash

Derived forms: godowns, went down, going down, goes down, gone down

See also: go

Type of: break, break down, conk out, decrease, die, diminish, fail, fall, give out, give way, go, go bad, lessen, locomote, lose, move, storage warehouse, travel, warehouse

Encyclopedia: Go down

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