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death spiralnoun1A spiralling downward path taken by an aircraft that is out of control: the plane went into a death spiral and then a nose dive...- Kim regained consciousness just in time to steer the shuttle out of a death spiral.
- Dale cheered me on as I got his Cessna off the ground, did 30-degree turns and cruised the sky without sending us into a death spiral.
- For instance, one of the shots of the Juno II death spiral is taken from seaside, near the pad.
1.1Used in reference to a rapidly worsening situation, typically one that ends in disaster: when demand dipped, it sent a lot of vineyards into a death spiral his career is in a death spiral...- Once coaches compromise the integrity of their program, the completion of the employment death spiral is imminent.
- However, the death spiral of your psychological state has been an entertaining experience.
- Maybe he can stop the industry death spiral.
2(In pairs skating) a move in which the man pivots on one foot while the woman, stretched out almost parallel to the ice and holding on to his outstretched hand, circles around him with one skate on the ice: the death spiral is performed by almost every skating pair...- They had the crowd on their feet as they finished the program with a death spiral.
- Katalyn wasn't quite low enough to the ice in that backward outside edge death spiral.
- Scott and Dulebohn managed to get through the tough elements in the short program, but a bobble on the lift and his fall on the death spiral exit left them in third place.
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