GO UNDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go under mean? 

• GO UNDER (verb)
  The verb GO UNDER has 3 senses:

1. go under

2. disappear beyond the horizon

3. be called; go by a certain name

  Familiarity information: GO UNDER used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO UNDER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go under

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go down; go under; settle; sink

Context example:

The raft sank and its occupants drowned

Hypernyms (to "go under" is one way to...):

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

Verb group:

sink (cause to sink)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go under"):

settle; subside (sink down or precipitate)

founder (sink below the surface)

submerge; submerse (sink below the surface; go under or as if under water)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disappear beyond the horizon

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go down; go under; set

Context example:

the sun sets early these days

Hypernyms (to "go under" is one way to...):

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The moon will soon go under

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be called; go by a certain name

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

go by; go under

Context example:

She goes by her maiden name again

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Bethink you, then, said Sir Claude, that you go under a hard rule, with neither freedom nor pleasure—and for what?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)