GOES DOWN (WITH) Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

goes down (with)

verb

present tense third-person singular of go down (with), chiefly British

as in comes down (with)

to become affected with (a disease or disorder) across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week

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As the plasma gets hotter, its nuclei move faster, and a greater proportion of encounters occur at energies favorable for fusion.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
The background street gets wildly warped from distortion, and anything outside of the center suffers some detail loss.

— Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026

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Life and social structures in remote river villages are rooted in summer fish camps, where the community catches, processes, and preserves the salmon that feeds them through the winter.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
Participants step or jump off a platform more than 40 feet above the ground, experiencing a brief moment of free fall before the rope system catches them and slowly lowers them to the ground.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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Amazon does not directly employ workers anywhere in the country and instead contracts its labor force through other firms.

— Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
At birth, ordinary life contracts around a mother and newborn before opening outward again.

— Shushan Karapetian, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

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