went down; gone down; going down; goes down
1
2
: to admit of being swallowed
the medicine went down easily
3
a
: to find acceptance
will the plan go down with the farmers
b
: to come to be remembered especially in posterity
will he go down in history as a great president
4
British
: to leave a university
5
a
: to undergo defeat or failure
b
chiefly British
: to become incapacitated
went down with … acute tonsillitis—
Helen Cathcart
Helen Cathcart6
slang
: to take place : happen
Examples of godown in a Sentence
Verb
when's the drug deal supposed to go down?
Recent Examples on the Web
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Tegh Singh arrives and unloads his bundles of blossoms in Kapoor’s godown, an open-air stone courtyard that serves as the distillery.
—Rachna Sachasinh, National Geographic , 4 Jan. 2021
From across the Singapore River this trio of former godowns (warehouses) cuts a striking profile.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2018
Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
His fans recognized the historic nature of the performance, which will go down in the books as the first Super Bowl halftime entirely in Spanish.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
But a day like this, given how quick Verstappen and Red Bull were in Austin, should nevertheless go down as a good one for Ferrari.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
But then came the altercation, in which Philadelphia midfielder Jesus Bueno batted Zaha’s hand down in the middle of the pitch and Zaha responded with an open-handed push to Bueno’s face, and Bueno of course went down to the ground as if he had been punched by Mike Tyson.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
The puck went down low to Marco Rossi as Tarasenko drifted toward the net.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
That's, of course, not how things went down.
—Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
This skillset, however, has gone down in value through the rise of modern analytics, which values getting on base and slugging more than making contact.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
The Hurricanes played from behind all night, going down 14-0 within the first 10 minutes.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Everything surfeit went to the property’s godown.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Tegh Singh arrives and unloads his bundles of blossoms in Kapoor’s godown, an open-air stone courtyard that serves as the distillery.
—Rachna Sachasinh, National Geographic , 4 Jan. 2021
From across the Singapore River this trio of former godowns (warehouses) cuts a striking profile.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2018
Verb
Looming larger over the Current’s third defeat of the 2025 National Women’s Soccer League season was an injury to forward Temwa Chawinga, who went down — away from the ball — 23 minutes into the contest at Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
His fans recognized the historic nature of the performance, which will go down in the books as the first Super Bowl halftime entirely in Spanish.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
But a day like this, given how quick Verstappen and Red Bull were in Austin, should nevertheless go down as a good one for Ferrari.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
But then came the altercation, in which Philadelphia midfielder Jesus Bueno batted Zaha’s hand down in the middle of the pitch and Zaha responded with an open-handed push to Bueno’s face, and Bueno of course went down to the ground as if he had been punched by Mike Tyson.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
The puck went down low to Marco Rossi as Tarasenko drifted toward the net.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
That's, of course, not how things went down.
—Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
This skillset, however, has gone down in value through the rise of modern analytics, which values getting on base and slugging more than making contact.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
The Hurricanes played from behind all night, going down 14-0 within the first 10 minutes.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Godown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godown. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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