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 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 Said differently, in a decade and a half, the number of players selected in the MLB Draft went down by approximately 40%. — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026 Angel City attacker Jun Endo went down with a noncontact injury in the 33rd minute and was assisted off the pitch visibly shaken. — ABC News, 11 July 2026 Mbappé went down to the ground in the 76th minute, about 13 minutes after being hit hard by a Moroccan defender, and was taken off for a substitute a minute later. — Kyle Hightower, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026 Replays showed Julián Álvarez nick the ball off the winger before Salah went down under contact with the Argentine. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 July 2026 This turned a great explorer into a great survivor, as the voyage went down in legend for the extraordinary escape by those on board and a heroically safe return. — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 4 July 2026 When our neighbor in a Maryland beach town fell on hard times, my dad went down to the bank and co-signed the man’s mortgage — without saying a word to anyone. — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026 Xhaka was about to take a free kick when Larin blocked him and went down on the pitch. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 25 June 2026

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Verb

Argentina triumphed on penalties in 1998, after David Beckham was sent off, and England won via a penalty in 2002, when Beckham went some way to atoning for what happened four years earlier by converting from the spot.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 12 July 2026
What happened, Wells' parents say, is a mystery riddled with conflicting stories, implausible explanations and missing details.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026

Definition of happened

Verb

As the match went on, realising that his team had the upper hand in possession, Solbakken introduced technical wingers from the bench in Oscar Bobb and Andreas Schjelderup to better dictate the flow of play.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 July 2026
It’s been one week since Nolan Wells and his friends went on a Fourth of July trip to Horn Island – an uninhabited stretch of pristine wilderness off the Mississippi coast with no shelters, no facilities and no communications.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2026