"downgoing" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "down + going",
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      "expansion": "downgoing (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Research Required to Support Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, page 27",
          "text": "First, explosions in the water are efficient generators of seismic waves, because hydroacoustic energy efficiently generates downgoing seismic waves below the water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending downward"
      ],
      "id": "en-downgoing-en-adj-teeMVJ7I",
      "links": [
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          "sciences",
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        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sciences, especially of a wave) Tending downward"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a wave",
        "of a wave"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "downgoing"
}

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      "expansion": "down + going",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "down + going",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "downgoings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "downgoing (plural downgoings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, John Stanyan Bigg, Night and the Soul: A Dramatic Poem, page 121",
          "text": "Art thou not weary, Time, of thy long tramp, / Thy long downgoings from the thrones of bliss ?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A descent"
      ],
      "id": "en-downgoing-en-noun-Ck6N787B",
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          "poetic",
          "poetic"
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        [
          "descent",
          "descent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, poetic) A descent"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "downgone"
        },
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      "tags": [
        "poetic",
        "rare"
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  ],
  "word": "downgoing"
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    {
      "word": "upgoing"
    }
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    "English uncomparable adjectives"
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        "2": "down",
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      "expansion": "down + going",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "down + going",
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "downgoing (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1997, Research Required to Support Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, page 27",
          "text": "First, explosions in the water are efficient generators of seismic waves, because hydroacoustic energy efficiently generates downgoing seismic waves below the water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending downward"
      ],
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        [
          "sciences",
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          "downward",
          "downward"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sciences, especially of a wave) Tending downward"
      ],
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        "of a wave",
        "of a wave"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "sciences"
      ]
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  "word": "downgoing"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "down + going",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
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  "lang": "English",
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "downgone"
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    {
      "word": "upgoing"
    }
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        "English terms with rare senses"
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        {
          "ref": "1854, John Stanyan Bigg, Night and the Soul: A Dramatic Poem, page 121",
          "text": "Art thou not weary, Time, of thy long tramp, / Thy long downgoings from the thrones of bliss ?",
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        }
      ],
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        "A descent"
      ],
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        "(rare, poetic) A descent"
      ],
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  "word": "downgoing"
}