Thesaurus results for GONE DOWN

gone down

verb

past participle of go down, slang

as in happened

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

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Recent Examples of gone down Mitchell Leff / Getty Images So while the number of seats for fans might have gone up, the actual number of seats for sale to the average fan have actually gone down — a trend that is on a roll across the country in all major sports. — Jonah Kaplan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Minor feuds have also gone down with David Guetta, Sean Paul and Flo Rida, the former two later going on to work with him. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 What transpired in-between the curtain raiser and final pose was much like what had gone down the previous night in Cincinnati, at the first public gig the Beach Boys had done since canceling a slew of dates beginning in July. — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 Without the interview, his parents’ relationship might have gone down in history as a rumor. — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 The key point here is that MLB players received just 47-48 percent of league revenues this year and their share has gone down under each of the last four CBAs. — Jim Bowden, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 For a couple of years now, bond prices have mostly gone down, sending interest rates higher. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 The deer population has fallen by nearly half, but the tick story is more complicated; while tick numbers have gone down, the proportion carrying Lyme has gone up. — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026 Mayor Evans and City Manager Joe Smolinski argued that despite incurring debt, Mansfield’s tax rate has consistently gone down in recent years while the homestead property tax exemption rate has increased. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gone down

Verb

That, however, never happened and an attorney eventually petitioned for his release.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
His death happened two weeks after his release tour for High, Lonesome and Then Some was canceled following Snider’s involvement in a still-unclear incident in Salt Lake City that landed him in a hospital and in jail.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of happened

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Welch Suggs, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at Georgia, noted the study was done over a period of growth in higher education.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
This isn’t a team that wants to pass the ball 45 times a game despite their veteran signal caller having done so many times throughout his career.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026