going under
Failing beyond recovery
Going under means sinking below a surface, especially water: The boat was going under fast.
More commonly it describes business failure—a company going under has become insolvent and ceased operations: Three restaurants on that block went under last year.
It can also mean losing consciousness, particularly from anesthesia: Count backward from ten; you'll be going under soon.
Death by water inhalation
- sinkingFalling through water
- strugglingExperiencing serious difficulty
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- inundatedOverwhelmed by quantity
flooded · buried · engulfed · besieged · bombarded · overloaded · burdened · crushed
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- collapseSudden structural failure
- foldingBending something over itself
- closingFinal stage of something
shutting · liquidation · foreclosure · receivership · bust · ruin · demise · downfall
Entering water deliberately
- submergingPutting fully underwater
- plungingDescending steeply and quickly
- descendingMoving downward
- immersingPlunging completely into
sinking · dipping · ducking · dunking · swimming · underwater · beneath · below
drowning
Death by water inhalation
- sinkingFalling through water
- strugglingExperiencing serious difficulty
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
inundated · flooded · buried · engulfed · besieged · bombarded · overloaded · burdened · crushed · suffocating
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- collapseSudden structural failure
- foldingBending something over itself
closing · shutting · liquidation · foreclosure · receivership · bust · ruin · demise · downfall · decline
diving
Entering water deliberately
- submergingPutting fully underwater
- plungingDescending steeply and quickly
- descendingMoving downward
immersing · sinking · dipping · ducking · dunking · swimming · underwater · beneath · below · depths
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- hard timeshardship, struggle, struggling, unemployment, tough times
- setbacksfailing, back to square one, stuck, losing, stumbles
- business failurebankruptcy court, insolvency, liquidation, closure, shutdown
- submersionsubmersion, submerging, immersion, total immersion, plunge
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
going undersurfacing
Coming to the surface
coming up · floating · rising · keeping one's head above water · emerging
going underthriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · succeeding · prospering · booming · taking off
going undercoming to
Regaining awareness after unconsciousness
waking up · coming around · reviving · staying awake · rousing
under, gone, going, underline, goes, undertake, underscore, undertone, undervalue