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CRASH-DIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crash-dive mean?
• CRASH-DIVE (verb)
The verb CRASH-DIVE has 1 sense:
1. descend steeply and rapidly
Familiarity information: CRASH-DIVE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they crash-dive ... he / she / it crash-dives
Past simple: crash-dived
Past participle: crash-dived
-ing form: crash-diving
... he / she / it crash-dives Past simple: crash-dived
Past participle: crash-dived
-ing form: crash-diving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Descend steeply and rapidly
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "crash-dive" is one way to...):
dive; plunge; plunk (drop steeply)
Domain category:
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to crash-dive
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