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Crash dive

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An emergency maneuver by a submarine in which it suddenly descends, especially to considerable depth, usually in order to escape an attack or avoid a collision. idiomatic

    "As the crash dive began at 1:50 p.m., the overboard ventilation valve had not been closed, which resulted in tons of water flooding the submarine."

  2. 2
    a rapid descent by a submarine wordnet
  3. 3
    A rapid descent by a person or thing, ending in a violent collision.

    "In "Icarus's Mother," a skywriter salutes two girls on a beach with the message, "E=MC²," and then swirls into a deadly crash dive."

  4. 4
    Three quarters of a front somersault, beginning on the feet and landing on the back.

    "The next routine can be the same as Routine 7 but with the crash dive being replaced with a one-and-three-quarter front somersault tucked (with a tariff of 0.7), making the total tariff 4.8"

Verb
  1. 1
    To perform a crash dive. idiomatic, intransitive

    "Cuthburt turned the Grandmere in time to see the U-69 within yards of his ship. Graf wasted no time in taking evasive action, crash diving and turning, barely escaping the Grandmere’s efforts to ram him."

  2. 2
    To cause (a submarine) to perform a crash dive. idiomatic, transitive

    "Siegmann was still obliged to crash-dive the sub three more times to escape twelve more bombs."

  3. 3
    To rapidly descend, intentionally or accidentally, in a manner that ends in a violent collision. intransitive

    "At 0640 hours, a Japanese suicide plane crash-dove into the USS Gilligan."

  4. 4
    To rapidly descend, in a manner that ends in a violent collision with (something). transitive

    "Twenty-two Jap suicide planes sighted destroyer off Okinawa April 16 and for more than two hours bombed and crash-dived the ship in a wild and apparently unorganized attack."

  5. 5
    To cause (something) to descend rapidly, in a manner that ends in a violent collision. transitive

    "[T]he Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships."

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