What is another word for going under?

Pronunciation: [ɡˌə͡ʊɪŋ ˈʌndə] (IPA)

Going under can refer to a few different things, including sinking or submerging, experiencing failure or defeat, or being put to sleep before surgery. There are a variety of synonyms that can be used to describe these situations, including plunging, descending, succumbing, collapsing, floundering, foundering, submerging, submerging, losing, failing, flopping, crashing, and bottoming out. When it comes to being put to sleep before surgery, synonyms include being anesthetized, sedated, or put in a medically-induced coma. No matter which synonym you choose, they all convey a sense of things not going well or heading in a negative direction.

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What are the hypernyms for Going under?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Going under

  • There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
    James A. Baldwin
  • We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.
    Heston Blumenthal
  • There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
    James Daly
  • We are not that different than animals- an orangutan is 97 percent the same as humans, one day we may be the ones going under their rules
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  • In Reading [England] there is this thing called the IDR, short for "Inner Distribution Road", which is bureaucratese for "Big thing that cost a lot of money and relieves traffic problems, provided all your traffic wants to orbit the town centre permanently". It's a 2-3 lane dual carriageway that goes round the town centre. It has lots of roundabouts, an overhead section, a couple of spare motorway-like exits (that's British motorways -- y'know, the roundabout with the main road going under it), and a thing called the Watlington Street Gyratory, where you have to get in lane for your intended destination about three years and two corners before you get there with no signposting. I used to cycle along it every day to get to school, before I fell off at 35 mph. [Kids! Don't try this at home!] I know it well. I believe it is impossible to leave Reading heading west.
    Terry Pratchett

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