1. (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse
   "The spices were stored in a large godown near the port"

1. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   "He was going down the stairs";
   - descend, come down
    
2. Go down below the surface (esp. of water) to become submerged
   "the sun goes down early these days";
   - set, go under
    
3. (of a ship etc.) go under water
   "The raft went down and its occupants drowned";
   - sink, settle, go under
    
4. Grow smaller
   "Interest in the project went down";
   - decline, wane
    
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. Be recorded or remembered
   "She will go down as the first feminist"
    
8. Stop operating
   "The system goes down at least once a week";
   - crash
    
9. Become reduced in amount, level, intensity, or value
   "stock prices went down sharply";
   - decrease, diminish, lessen, fall, come down, sink, dent
    
10. [N. Amer, informal] Happen or occur
    "I wonder what went down at the meeting last night"

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

See also: give

Type of: appear, break, break down, change magnitude, conk out [informal], die, disappear, fail, give out, give up the ghost [informal], give way, go, go bad, locomote, look, lose, move, pack up [Brit, informal], seem, storage warehouse, travel, vanish, warehouse

Antonym: come up

Encyclopedia: Godown