GOT DOWN Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

got down

verb

past tense of get down

as in dismounted

to come down from something (as a vehicle) I was getting down from the seaplane when a gust of wind swept away my hat

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as in weighed down

to make sad it's really getting him down that there does not seem to be one woman who will date him

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as in sipped

to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat with her sore throat, liquids are the only thing she can get down

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Recent Examples of got down On July 17, 2025, DiLeo got down on one knee and proposed to Gustafson in Iowa City during her WNBA All-Star break. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026 Midway through The Choice ceremony, Edris got down on one knee and asked Jessica Grace to marry him. — Joelle Goldstein, USA Today, 15 July 2026 As Henderson found the rough twice on her playoff approach, Ryu kept her cool in the relentless sunshine, found the fairway and got down in four shots on the par 5. — Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 12 July 2026 Dressed in an ivory sweater, aviator sunglasses, and skintight biker shorts, Lopez got down with a group of backup dancers in the clip. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 7 July 2026 In one especially surreal moment, Kuznetsov got down on one knee and appeared to propose to Nikolau. — David Hickey, NBC news, 2 July 2026 The couple was on top of the building for about 30 minutes, where Beerkus got down on one knee and popped the question to Nikolau. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026 Will Ferrell got down to his skivvies for a new SKIMS ad, in which the funnyman bares not all, but aplenty. — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026 At a Mets game at Citi Field in 2018, the entire Red44 crew got down on the grass for a photo, with Pughsley front and center. — Keith O’Brien, New Yorker, 25 June 2026

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Meanwhile, the owner of the carriage involved in the fatal crash suspended the driver indefinitely and plans to retire the horse, according to union officials, who said the driver improperly dismounted to take a photograph of his passengers.

— Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
Their father dismounted, went down on foot, climbed the fence his son had crawled under.

— Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of dismounted

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For these banks, large majorities of their IT budgets are focused on maintaining the status quo, leaving them weighed down by the burden of legacy technology.

— Jody Bhagat, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The Nasdaq is lower, weighed down by the post-earnings slides in data-storage makers Sandisk and Western Digital .

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of weighed down

Verb

It is said that Salvador Dali, Marilyn Monroe and Ernest Hemingway are among the luminaries who have sipped drinks at the King Cole Bar and Salon.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
As the two young women talked, the thirty-five-year-old man sipped the icemelt at the bottom of his glass.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of sipped

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Two days earlier, Delhi police officers had descended on Jantar Mantar, the eighteenth-century astronomical observatory and frequent site of protests in the nation’s capital, where Wangchuk had been on an indefinite hunger strike since June 28.

— Jonathan Mingle, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
Parking is banned on Guthrie’s stretch of Camino Escalante, a restriction that was sparked by media that descended on her quiet neighborhood in February and March.

— Stephanie Murray, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of descended

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In addition, the way graduation rates are reported across BIE schools was changed to address flawed data collection that previously depressed the numbers.

— Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026
Rising costs of components, supply chain constraints, and weaker consumer demand that are all partly linked to the Iran war have depressed smartphone sales in much of the continent, resulting in the slowest growth of shipments to Africa in two years, research firm Omdia said.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 June 2026

Definition of depressed

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Harbaugh lit one more friendly fire under his team at the end of Thursday’s jog-through practice.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
The Plan Commission report said while, due to the nature of the development, the gas station would be brightly lit, the convenience store building and a heavily landscaped area to the west would block the impact of light for neighbors.

— Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of lit

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The creator of vivid, indelible fantasies for women to try on and to embody was also a fragile and anguished man, troubled throughout his life by alcohol, drug dependency, and bouts of debilitating depression.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
Church leaders were deeply troubled by a new, unrestrained form of capitalism that left laborers with few options other than working on mechanized assembly lines, under harsh terms set by corporate managers.

— Walter Scheirer, The Conversation, 31 July 2026