Square Up vs Go Down - What's the Difference?

Go Down

Square Up

Definitions

Definition as Verb
  • move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
  • go under
  • grow smaller
  • be recorded or remembered
  • be ingested
  • be defeated
  • disappear beyond the horizon
  • stop operating
Definition as Verb
  • make square
  • even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
  • settle conclusively; come to terms

Examples

  • "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
  • "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
  • "Interest in the project waned"
  • "She will go down as the first feminist"
  • "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"
  • "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
  • "the sun sets early these days"
  • "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
  • "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
  • "We finally settled the argument"

Parts of Speech

Verb
Verb