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Definition of crash-dive in English: crash-diveverb [no object]1(of a submarine) dive rapidly and steeply to a deeper level in an emergency. Example sentencesExamples - If the submarine had come under attack, both men would have quickly drowned with no hope of escape as their boat crash-dived.
- Anyway, Brick's good piloting brought the sub back in view, now crash-diving to yet away.
- Often, in the mid-Atlantic, after forcing U-boats to crash-dive, carrier planes dropped homing torpedoes on the submarines.
- These allowed a submarine to surface and crash dive without having to send out crewmen to dismantle the mast in an emergency.
- 1.1 (of an aircraft) plunge steeply downwards into a crash.
pilots crash-dived on bridges over the Oder, destroying three of them Synonyms crash, plummet, pitch, drop, fall, fall headlong, tumble, nosedive, take a nosedive, descend
noun A steep dive by a submarine or aircraft. Example sentencesExamples - The man admitted that he had been playing with the helicopter and was making a crash dive move.
- ‘There was a lot of noise and debris flying about and the helicopter went into a controlled crash dive but Pete had only partially detached himself,’ said Mr Dell.
- Forty minutes later we make a crash dive, regrouping at 15m below the surface current that whips across the reef-top.
Definition of crash-dive in US English: crash-diveverbˈkræʃˌdaɪvˈkraSHˌdīv [no object]1(of a submarine) dive rapidly and steeply to a deeper level in an emergency. Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, Brick's good piloting brought the sub back in view, now crash-diving to yet away.
- If the submarine had come under attack, both men would have quickly drowned with no hope of escape as their boat crash-dived.
- These allowed a submarine to surface and crash dive without having to send out crewmen to dismantle the mast in an emergency.
- Often, in the mid-Atlantic, after forcing U-boats to crash-dive, carrier planes dropped homing torpedoes on the submarines.
- 1.1 (of an aircraft) plunge steeply downward into a crash.
pilots crash-dived on bridges over the Oder, destroying three of them Synonyms crash, plummet, pitch, drop, fall, fall headlong, tumble, nosedive, take a nosedive, descend
nounˈkræʃˌdaɪvˈkraSHˌdīv crash diveA steep dive by a submarine or aircraft. Example sentencesExamples - The man admitted that he had been playing with the helicopter and was making a crash dive move.
- Forty minutes later we make a crash dive, regrouping at 15m below the surface current that whips across the reef-top.
- ‘There was a lot of noise and debris flying about and the helicopter went into a controlled crash dive but Pete had only partially detached himself,’ said Mr Dell.
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