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 The helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350, went down near a large storage facility. — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026 The pilot ejected before the fighter went down near County Road 633 and Blair Townhall Road in Grand Traverse County. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026 The following morning, the original four sat on a stage at the AmericanaFest conference and revealed some of the thoughts going through their heads as the reunion many bet would ever happen finally went down. — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026 Moreno, Marciniw and 29-year-old Edy Gutierrez Mejia, who was on the ground when the chopper went down, were killed. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 The chopper went down between two commercial buildings, killing three people, authorities said. — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026 The right-wing position has been a major issue for Tottenham since Mohammed Kudus went down with a hamstring injury in January. — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 Gabriel Edwards, 42, went missing on July 1 after his helicopter went down in the Arabian Sea, according to a Navy announcement. — Catherine Bouvet, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026 Still, the game smartly kicks off with a quick rundown of what went down in the first Isolation, narrated by Ripley, who was responsible for the destruction of the infested Sevastopol station. — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for went down

Verb

And, fortuitously for would-be sponsors, something happened in tennis that made these arrangements even more appealing.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Trust your gut when something feels off, verify what happened and act quickly to lock down your accounts and credit.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of happened

Verb

Little by little as the day went on, the ranks of us still in the running grew thinner.

— Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
So Mannheim head coach and sports manager Dallas Eakins (previously the head coach of the Anaheim Ducks) had an up-close view as the summer went on.

— Max Bultman, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of went on

Verb

The arrest came about a month before a Florida appellate court ruled that the state’s open-carry ban was unconstitutional.

— Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
Lisa McQueen, senior manager of marketing at Lexus, also shared that the idea of the Future Classic Club came about from the brand’s notable Japanese design heritage and reinterpreting it through Ambush’s global and contemporary lens.

— Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026