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dive

noun as in descent, usually underwater

noun as in dirty, sleazy establishment

verb as in descend, usually going underwater

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Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.

When used improperly those encouraging statistics take a nose dive.

The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.

We wanted to create a dedicated hub where people can dive into it and get all this commentary on the news.

They'd never be allowed to take their clothes off and dive in the way boys do.

Then came the end: the Titanic, with a low long slanting dive went down and with her Thomas Andrews.

He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.

He proved that one night when we picked up a quartet of drunks at a dive on the south end of our district.

I shoved through the door of the dive, Burke following close behind.

Despite the speed of his dive, they were gaining on him, coming up fast; one snout that ended in a cupped depression was plain.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dive, such as: dip, leap, plunge, dash, duck, and ducking.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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