What it means

1. verb be defeated
   “If America goes down, the free world will go down, too”
2. verb be ingested
   “This wine sure goes down well”
3. verb be recorded or remembered
   “She will go down as the first feminist”
4. verb grow smaller
   “Interest in the project waned”
5. verb stop operating
   “My computer crashed last night”
6. verb disappear beyond the horizon
   “the sun sets early these days”
7. verb move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   “The temperature is going down”
8. verb go under
   “The raft sank and its occupants drowned”