| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving down; lowering |
| Synonyms: | cave-in, coast, coming down, crash, declension, declination, decline, declivity, dip, downgrade, droop, drop, drop-off, fall, falling, grade, gradient, header, hill, inclination, incline, landslide, plummeting, plunge, plunging, precipitation, prolapse, sag, settlement, sinkage, sinking, slant, slide, slip, slope, swoop, tailspin, topple, tumble |
| Antonyms: | ascension, ascent, elevation, increase, rise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | submersion in liquid |
| Synonyms: | bath, dive, douche, drenching, ducking, immersion, plunge, soak, soaking, swim |
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put into liquid |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bathe, douse, drench, duck, dunk, immerse, irrigate, lave, lower, moisten, pitch, plunge, rinse, slop, slosh, soak, souse, splash, steep, submerge, submerse, wash, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower, descend |
| Synonyms: | bend, decline, disappear, droop, drop down, fade, fall, go down, incline, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, reach, recede, sag, set, settle, sheer, sink, skew, skid, slant, slip, slope, slue, slump, spiral, subside, swoop, tilt, tumble, veer, verge |
| Antonyms: | ascend, raise |
| Main Entry: | dive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | descent, usually underwater |
| Synonyms: | belly flop, dash, dip, duck, ducking, fall, header headlong jump, leap, lunge, nosedive, pitch, plunge, spring, submergence, submersion, swoop |
| Antonyms: | ascent, jump |
| Main Entry: | dive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend, usually going underwater |
| Synonyms: | belly flop, dip, disappear, drop, duck, fall, go headfirst, gutter, header, jump, leap, lunge, nose-dive, pitch, plumb, plummet, plunge, spring, submerge, swoop, vanish, vault |
| Antonyms: | ascend, go up, jump |
| Main Entry: | douse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, extinguish with liquid |
| Synonyms: | blow out, deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, squench, steep, submerge, submerse, wet |
| Notes: | douse first meant 'knock, punch, strike' and now means 'to extinguish or wet thoroughly; dowse means to look for water or minerals with a divining rod |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | downturn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drop |
| Synonyms: | decline, descent, deterioration, dip, downtick, fall, plunge, retreat, sinking, slide, slump |
| Main Entry: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit with heavy blow |
| Synonyms: | batter, beat, butt, dash, dig, hammer, jackhammer, knock, maul, plunge, pop, punch, ram, run, shoot, sink, smite, sock, stab, stick, strike, throw, thrust, thump, twack, whack, wham |