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Go under

To descend into a body of water; to founder.

📖 Definitions of "Go under"

verb

1
To descend into a body of water; to founder.
"the boat was too heavy and went under."
2
To collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt.
"In the crisis, the company was forced to reduce its costs in order to avoid going under."
3
To be named; to call oneself.
"He goes under the name of Mr X to remain anonymous."
4
To enter a state of hypnosis.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
sinkverb	(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
setverb	(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
go byverb	To pass or go past without much interaction.
go downverb	To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
settleverb	To conclude or resolve (something):
submarinenoun	(nautical) A boat that can go underwater.
go down withverb	To catch or contract (an illness).
submerse	(botany) Growing entirely under water.
divenoun	A jump or plunge into water.
fallnoun	The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
submergeverb	(transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
bottom outverb	(intransitive) To reach the bottom; to reach the nadir or lowest point.
downwellnoun	A vertical shaft or well in which water flows downward.
demergenoun	(business) To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger.
drop inverb	(idiomatic) To arrive casually and unannounced, with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment.
foundernoun	One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
forsenchverb	(transitive, obsolete) To submerge; cause to sink; drown.
take a diveverb	To decline rapidly.
drownverb	(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
dropnoun	(also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.

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