POWER-DIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power-dive mean? 

• POWER-DIVE (verb)
  The verb POWER-DIVE has 1 sense:

1. make a power dive

  Familiarity information: POWER-DIVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWER-DIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they power-dive    ... he / she / it power-dives   
Past simple: power-dived   
Past participle: power-dived   
-ing form: power-diving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a power dive

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The airplane power-dived

Hypernyms (to "power-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 something

Sentence example:

The airplane is sure to power-dive