dive in/dive into sth
— phrasal verb with dive uk/daɪv/us/daɪv/verb past tense dived or US also dove, past participle dived
C2 to start doing something suddenly and energetically, often without stopping to think:
When he saw the children fighting, he just dived in to sort it out.
When I start a new project, I like to dive right in and see how it works.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick in
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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