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go down

verb

also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a lower place or level; sink, decline, decrease, etc
prices are going down
the path goes down to the sea
the ship went down this morning
to be defeated; lose
to be remembered or recorded (esp in the phrase go down in history )
to be received
his speech went down well
(of food) to be swallowed
bridge to fail to make the number of tricks previously contracted for
to leave a college or university at the end of a term or the academic year
usually foll by with to fall ill; be infected
(of a celestial body) to sink or set
the sun went down before we arrived
slang.
to go to prison, esp for a specified period
he went down for six months
slang.
to happen
go down on slang.
to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on

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Sir Richard said: "I still think it's a good time to start in the UK and... if we businesspeople can generate enough income for the UK, then taxes will start going down for people."

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While Phillips has since returned, another key member of last year’s team, Blake Treinen, has since gone down with a forearm strain.

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The Crimea-born champion's two wins over Tyson Fury cemented his legacy as a generational – with the potential to go down as an all-time - great.

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Will David, a Briton living in Lisbon, was having a haircut and beard trim in the basement of a barber when the power went down.

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We might actually be doing something that’ll go down in history, not just the big battle sequence, but also just the iconography of that Joel scene at the end.

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