Thesaurus results for GOING DOWN

going down

verb

Definition of going down next

present participle of go down, slang

as in happening

to take place when's the drug deal supposed to go down?

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Recent Examples of going down The fact his team completely fell apart after going down 2-0 was, in his eyes, a sign of immaturity. —

Arpon Basu, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026 Bright and LoConti had followed a familiar path that millions of mothers like them were also going down. —

Will Carless, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026 Those injury issues bled into his junior year, with the 6-foot running back going down on the first day of fall camp in late July. —

Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 5 Nov. 2025 The vaccination rates for flu, measles, and tetanus are also going down. —

Phillip Reese, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025 Getting a bit weird with it, going down these rabbit holes. —

Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025 And so to see this whole thing falling apart, her son going down the tubes, what's going to happen to him, her husband, lie after lie and deception after deception, on top of things that predate the show. —

H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 And some might be afraid of their property values going down, or that their neighborhood will be rampant with crime. —

Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025 Thank you for not going down that road. —

Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025

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Until now, that region has been completely out of reach, and scientists could only guess what was happening there.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Feb. 2026
None of this means, of course, that the players and staff weren’t affected by what was happening in their city.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026