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Phrasal Verb: Go down

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Go down - Decrease, get smaller
Example:
The price of scanners has GONE DOWN recently.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Sink
Example:
The Titanic WENT DOWN after it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Sunset
Example:
The sun WENT DOWN at seven o'clock.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Be sent to to prison
Example:
He WENT DOWN for ten years for armed robbery.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Become recorded as or known as
Example:
It WENT DOWN as the worst day in the history of the company.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Be eaten or swallowed
Example:
The medicine WENT DOWN easily.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Fall to the ground
Example:
The boxer WENT DOWN in the second round.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Happen, take place
Example:
The police thought that a big crime was GOING DOWN that night.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Stop working, especially computers
Example:
The computer system WENT DOWN for an hour last night.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Become dimmer
Example:
The lights WENT DOWN and the audience stopped talking.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Go down - Be received by people, in terms of their reaction
Example:
My joke WENT DOWN very badly.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
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Other Phrasal Verbs

We have 54 phrasal verbs with 'GO'

- Go about
- Go across
- Go after
- Go against
- Go ahead
- Go ahead with
- Go along with
- Go around
- Go at
- Go away
- Go back
- Go back on
- Go before
- Go below
- Go by
- Go down
- Go down on
- Go down to
- Go down with
- Go for
- Go for it
- Go forth
- Go forward
- Go in
- Go in for
- Go in with
- Go into
- Go it
- Go it alone
- Go off
- Go off with
- Go on
- Go on about
- Go on at
- Go on to
- Go on with
- Go one
- Go out
- Go out for
- Go out to
- Go out with
- Go over
- Go over to
- Go past
- Go round
- Go through
- Go through with
- Go together
- Go towards
- Go under
- Go up
- Go up to
- Go with
- Go without

 
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