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divesnounpl. of dive an act or instance of divingthe penguin took a dive off of the ice sheet pitches, plunges dips, immersions, submersionsfalls, plumps, slips, spills, stumbles, tumblesdescents, dropsbelly flops, headers, jackknives, swan dives jumps, leaps the act or process of going to a lower level or altitudestock prices took a long, steady dive descents, dips, downs, drops, falls, nosedives, plunges comedowns, declines, downfalls, downgrades ascents, climbs, rises, risings, soarings, upswings, upturns advances, headways, progresses, progressionsbetterments, improvements divesverbpresent tense third-person singular of diveto cast oneself head first into deep waterwe watched her dive in after the drowning man to go to a lower level especially abruptlysales figures for existing homes dived dramatically when mortgage rates skyrocketed crashes, craters, declines, descends, dips, drops, falls, lowers, nose-dives, plummets, plunges, sinks, skids, tumbles abates, decreases, de-escalates, dies (down), diminishes, droops, dwindles, ebbs, lessens, lets up, moderates, subsides, tapers off, wanesrecedes, retreats arises, ascends, lifts, mounts, rises, soars, spikes, ups accumulates, balloons, builds, burgeons(also bourgeons), enlarges, escalates, expands, grows, increases, intensifies, mushrooms, picks up, snowballs, swells, waxes in the 14th century |