Go-under Definition

verb

To descend into a body of water.

The boat was too heavy and went under.
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(idiomatic) To be named, to call oneself.

He goes under the name of Mr X to remain anonymous.
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(idiomatic) To go bankrupt, to collapse.

In the crisis, the company was forced to reduce its costs in order to avoid going under.
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To enter a state of hypnosis.

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Go-under Sentence Examples

  • The societies which Bourne formed were for a time allowed to go under (Wesleyan) Methodist protection, but the crisis came in 1810, when the Stanley class of ten members declined to wash their hands of the Camp-Meeting Methodists, and so were refused admission.

  • St Basil's claim to the authorship of the Rules and other ascetical writings that go under his name, has been questioned; but the tendency now is to recognize as his at any rate the two sets of Rules.

  • The government allowed 50 of them to go under the protection of about 900 soldiers.

  • I guess if I'm going to go under cover and snoop, I'd better get an old nondescript Chevy or Ford.

  • Evil does not overwhelm The larkspur and the corn; We have seen them go under.

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