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
Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
Senior center Ross Ulugalu-Maseuli went down five minutes into the period.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Those prompts might serve to reduce the AI’s default tendencies and keep the AI from going down rabbit holes with the person.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Daniels went down with a pectoral injury after just three offensive plays, while Duck hurt his ankle in the second quarter.
—Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Jayson Tatum went down with a torn Achilles in the second round against the New York Knicks.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Avrich talks to Deadline in regards to how this went down.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
So our guard went down and the camera might be hidden in the kitchen and shooting through the blinds.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 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
The quality of the at-bat might go down a little bit.
—Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
Senior center Ross Ulugalu-Maseuli went down five minutes into the period.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Those prompts might serve to reduce the AI’s default tendencies and keep the AI from going down rabbit holes with the person.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Daniels went down with a pectoral injury after just three offensive plays, while Duck hurt his ankle in the second quarter.
—Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Jayson Tatum went down with a torn Achilles in the second round against the New York Knicks.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Avrich talks to Deadline in regards to how this went down.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
So our guard went down and the camera might be hidden in the kitchen and shooting through the blinds.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Godown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godown. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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