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
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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
T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
And even in recent interviews given to promote the residency’s resumption, other band members were cagey about exactly what went down, before Neil himself let the cat out of the bag.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
The Giants’ first drive officially went down as a 21-play, 110-yard drive that ended with a 38-yard field goal.
—Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
The front yard had a history of flooding during hard rains when the water from the backyard would go down the drains and under the walkway.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
This is technically what went down but, unbeknownst to the cartel, a lot more happened behind the scenes.
—Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
This is how conspiracies always unravel, with the small-timers going down first.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Really went down with the pitch before, had his eyes down.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Ekeler, 30, went down on a non-contact play while running a route.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 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
Two seconds, three, all of us immobilized in shock while my son, the toddler, went down like a ship’s anchor, all the way down through nine feet of water to the dappled sloping bottom.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
And even in recent interviews given to promote the residency’s resumption, other band members were cagey about exactly what went down, before Neil himself let the cat out of the bag.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
The Giants’ first drive officially went down as a 21-play, 110-yard drive that ended with a 38-yard field goal.
—Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
The front yard had a history of flooding during hard rains when the water from the backyard would go down the drains and under the walkway.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
This is technically what went down but, unbeknownst to the cartel, a lot more happened behind the scenes.
—Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
This is how conspiracies always unravel, with the small-timers going down first.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Really went down with the pitch before, had his eyes down.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Ekeler, 30, went down on a non-contact play while running a route.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Godown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godown. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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