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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for got down

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Their father dismounted, went down on foot, climbed the fence his son had crawled under.

— Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Ukrainian drones monitor these areas for resupply movement by small trucks, ground robots, or dismounted troops.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026

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When Culp arrived in 2018, GE’s market cap had collapsed to about $96 billion—down more than 80% from its 2000 peak—and the company was weighed down by roughly $150 billion of debt and chronic cash flow underperformance, Tully writes.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 July 2026
It was weighed down by sharp losses from several big tech stocks.

— Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of weighed down

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While pilgrims ascended the mountain, Mayo supporters descended en masse on Dublin for the final at Croke Park, splashing the county’s colours across the capital.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026
That’s why, a day before the smoke plumes descended, Saxon was using zip ties to fasten an air quality sensor to the railing of a house in McKinley Park, the latest of 15 or so installations she’s done over the past few years.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 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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Peterson generated a ton of shots and had four 20-point games, but the same issues against length in the paint that troubled him at Kansas cropped up at summer league.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Zepeda comes forward and throws volume, which is exactly the input Roach's counterpunching needs to look spectacular and exactly the pressure that has troubled him when the scorecards got close.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026