Thesaurus results for WENT DOWN

went down

verb

past tense 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 went down Atlanta went down to 10 men in the 27th minute when Enea Mihaj was shown a red card, but Miguel Almirón gave United the lead three minutes later. — ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026 In addition to Pearsall and Kirk, running back Jordan James is out with a rib fracture, and safety Malik Mustapha went down with a hamstring strain. — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026 In April, an Air Force F-35 assigned to Nellis Air Force Base went down in the Nevada Test and Training Range after the pilot ejected safely. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026 When the voting went down, every savvy person in the motion picture industry had certainly seen it. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2026 The bulk of the campus had been quickly converted after its previous occupant went down in the fallout from the dot-com bust. — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026 Toczko said that rescue teams had searched over 1,200 miles and continued their efforts until the sun went down on Wednesday, July 15, NBC Bay Area reported. — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026 The result went down in fashion history, and Castañer, a label founded in the city of Bañolas in 1927, continues to make the design. — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 July 2026 Angel City attacker Jun Endo went down with a non-contact injury in the 33rd minute and was assisted off the pitch visibly shaken. — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for went down

Verb

Then Digital Audio Workstations like Cubase happened and suddenly, the bedroom became the recording studio.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2026
The instructions did not forbid what happened, and the environments did not prevent it.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of happened

Verb

There was a small bathroom with glass doors and a shower, a mini-bar, closet, desk, lounge chair and large doors that open onto the street.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Two Plössl eyepieces provided different magnifications, and there was also a red-dot finderscope and a manual equatorial mount with slow-motion cables.

— Damian Peach, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of was

Verb

After a severe overnight storm prior to the event, however, the Premier Access viewing area was canceled, organizers said, even though much of the Sail4th 250 celebration went on elsewhere.

— Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Sam Machado and his wife, Tammy Machado, who owned the property, and Tammy Machado’s sister, Reiko Matsumura, a former Yolo County sheriff’s deputy who went on leave after the explosion and retired in September.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of went on

Verb

The three incidents came about in part because the models’ testing environments were supposed to be isolated from an internet connection, and were not.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Citing Zendaya’s dress, designed by Matières Fécales, the look came about in similar ways to his past work with Zendaya, with little outside inspiration needed.

— James Manso, Allure, 30 July 2026