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Noun: godown  gow'dawn
Usage: Asia
  1. (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse
Verb: go down
    "The temperature is going down";
    - descend, fall, come down
  2. Go under
    "The raft went down and its occupants drowned";
    - sink, settle, go under
  3. Grow smaller
    "Interest in the project went down";
    - decline, wane
  4. Be recorded or remembered
    "She will go down as the first feminist"
  5. Be ingested
  6. Be defeated
  7. (astronomy) go down below the surface (esp. of water) to become submerged
    "the sun goes down early these days";
    - set, go under
  8. Stop operating
    "The system goes down at least once a week";
    - crash

Derived forms: godowns, going down, gone down, went down, goes down

See also: go

Type of: break, break down, conk out, decrease, die, diminish, fail, fall, give out, give way, go, go bad, lessen, locomote, lose, move, storage warehouse, travel, warehouse

Encyclopedia: Godown

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