crash dive (English, verb)
expansion: crash dive (third-person singular simple present crash dives, present participle crash diving, simple past crash dived or (chiefly US) crash dove, past participle crash dived)
Senses:
qualifier: often hyphenated; submarine operation; often hyphenated; submarine operation
glosses: To perform a crash dive.
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
qualifier: often hyphenated; submarine operation; often hyphenated; submarine operation
glosses: To cause (a submarine) to perform a crash dive.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: To rapidly descend, intentionally or accidentally, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.
tags: intransitive
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: To rapidly descend, in a manner that ends in a violent collision with (something).
tags: transitive
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: To cause (something) to descend rapidly, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: crash dives
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crash diving
tags: participle
present
form: crash dived
tags: past
form: crash dove
tags: US
past
form: crash dived
tags: participle
past
form: crash-dive
tags: alternative