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 Plus, the tall shafts helped keep me warm when the temperatures dropped dramatically once the sun went down, which was a major bonus. — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2026 Baseball’s entrepreneurs, however, saw the move as an opportunity to play games slightly later, giving fans a chance to attend after work while still playing nine innings before the sun went down. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2026 As far as the night in Pennsylvania when everything happened, Mickey and I have very different recollections of what went down and why. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2026 Emergency calls in the City of Oakland are being answered by Alameda County after the city's 911 system went down Wednesday night. — Tim Fang, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Luke Fahey, the true freshman who took over after Sayin went down in the fourth quarter of last week’s victory, will remain the Buckeyes’ starter moving forward. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Coke may not have been involved, but clearly something went down, because Combs was taken to a local hospital early on October 10 with something wrong with his noggin. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 With the flash of red taillights flickering outside of the stadium, a sign of fans already heading for the exits, the Dodgers went down in order to end the game. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 What actually went down between Love and Kathleen Hannah backstage at ’95 Lollapalooza? — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026

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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