With down adv., or other contextual indication: To descend. Also gen. to ascend or descend.

To go or come down, descend.

intransitive. To go or come down; to descend. Also with from, down, out of. Now rare.

intransitive. To drop or sink downwards; to collapse; to descend; to fall down. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

To sink, droop, decline, fall; to come or go down (literal and figurative). Obsolete.

intransitive. To come down (in various senses); to descend from a higher place or position. Also figurative.

intransitive. To descend to a lower plane or level; to fall, drop, slip down; to enter in by falling. Of fish: to plunge deep, as when avoiding…

intransitive. Of things: To sink, flow, or drop down.

intransitive. To move or pass to a lower place or position, or one regarded as lower; to descend (from, †of). Cf. to go adown at phrasal verbs 1.

intransitive. To move or travel so as to come to a lower place or position, or one regarded as lower; to descend towards a place or person.

transferred. To sink or drop down through a small space, or below a particular level, as if dipping into water; to go down, sink, set.

intransitive. Of a cloud, storm, or immaterial thing (frequently something with negative, solemn, or quiet connotations, as depression, gloom…

intransitive. To bow, incline.

To come down, fall, descend, sink. Obsolete.

With ellipsis of come, go, sit, kneel, or another intransitive verb: to go or come down; to sit, kneel, or lie down; to die down. Cf. down, v.1 5.

intransitive. To descend or sink to a lower position; (of a celestial object) to set; figurative to decline, decay. Cf. inclination, n. 7, inclining…

To fall (down); to descend. Obsolete.

intransitive. Of an object which is raised and lowered on a hinge (as a drawbridge, a door knocker, the lever in a striking clock, etc.): to drop…

intransitive. To move downwards, sink, fall, descend, set (as the sun). Obsolete.

literal. To come down, go down, descend. Obsolete.

intransitive. To succeed in coming or going down; to convey oneself to or reach a lower place (esp. downstairs, off a horse or vehicle, etc.) or…

intransitive. To descend, sink down; to move to a lower position. Also: †to cower, crouch (obsolete). Also figurative and with down.

To come down from a height; to descend.

intransitive. To travel to a lower place or position. Obsolete.

intransitive. To come or go down; to descend.

intransitive. To come down from a height or an elevated place; to descend. Cf. dismount, v. 3. Obsolete. rare.