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
The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Our crime situation has gone down.
—ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
Later in the quarter, Gebhardt went down with a leg injury, and backup Demarcus Bird threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to Domonique Young.
—Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
If Max goes down because an update is buggy, servers break, or someone launches a cyberattack, the app could be offline for some period—in this case, potentially halting millions of bank payments, messages, and identity-verification attempts through the app.
—Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
Before the online court system went down Friday, The Charlotte Observer was able to see some of the records.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2025
The Celtics face an uphill climb to retain their spot among the NBA elite this season after superstar Jayson Tatum went down with a torn Achilles' tendon in May, as the defending NBA champs were in the process of losing in the second round of the playoffs to the New York Knicks.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
We in the audience roll with this in a way that goes down easy, though maybe a little too easy.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
So far this year, the number of people shot in Roselawn has gone down from the previous year.
—David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 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
Nolan Norris went down after he was tugged on the shoulder by Ali Maamar, and although the North African side requested a review and the challenge looked soft, the referee stuck with his verdict, and Campbell squeezed the spot-kick into the corner past the outstretched arm of Yanis Benchaouch.
—The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Our crime situation has gone down.
—ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
Later in the quarter, Gebhardt went down with a leg injury, and backup Demarcus Bird threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to Domonique Young.
—Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
If Max goes down because an update is buggy, servers break, or someone launches a cyberattack, the app could be offline for some period—in this case, potentially halting millions of bank payments, messages, and identity-verification attempts through the app.
—Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
Before the online court system went down Friday, The Charlotte Observer was able to see some of the records.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2025
The Celtics face an uphill climb to retain their spot among the NBA elite this season after superstar Jayson Tatum went down with a torn Achilles' tendon in May, as the defending NBA champs were in the process of losing in the second round of the playoffs to the New York Knicks.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
We in the audience roll with this in a way that goes down easy, though maybe a little too easy.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
So far this year, the number of people shot in Roselawn has gone down from the previous year.
—David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Godown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godown. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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