go down

• Verbo compuesto que indica movimiento hacia una posición más baja, disminución de cantidad o intensidad, o el acto de ser registrado o recordado de cierta manera.

A phrasal verb used to indicate moving to a lower position, decreasing, or being recorded or remembered in a particular way.

incontable · verbo irregular · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparable

1. Decrease or reduceformal

   To become lower in amount, level, or value.

   Descender / bajar

   • The price of oil went down significantly last month.
   • Temperatures will go down below freezing tonight.
   • His popularity went down after the scandal.

   Sinónimosdeclinedecreasediminishdropfalllessenplummetplungereducesink

   Antónimosclimbgrowincreaserisesoarsurge

2. Descend or move downwardformal

   To move from a higher position to a lower one.

   bajar

   • She went down the stairs carefully.
   • The elevator went down to the basement.
   • He went down the hill on his bicycle.

   Sinónimoscome downdeclinedescenddivedropfallplungesink

   Antónimosascendclimbmountrise

3. Be recorded or rememberedinformal

   To be written down or remembered in a particular way.

   pasar a la historia / ser recordado

   • This day will go down in history as a turning point.
   • His speech went down as one of the best ever given.
   • The event will go down in the company's records.

4. Be accepted or receivedinformal

   To be received or accepted in a particular way by an audience.

   ser recibido o acogido

   • The joke went down well with the crowd.
   • Her proposal went down badly with the board members.
   • The new policy went down smoothly with the employees.

   Sinónimosland

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