Deep-dive

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of deep dive. alt-of, alternative

    ""The interesting thing as a writer about Snodgrass was that it liberated you from all the clichés about John Lennon, because you could do what you liked with him. There was no official legend of the Beatles to have to fit into," says Quantick, who also wrote a book in 2002, Revolution, which was a deep-dive into the band’s White Album."

Verb
  1. 1
    To engage in deep diving. intransitive
  2. 2
    To conduct an in-depth examination or analysis of a topic. idiomatic, intransitive, often
  3. 3
    To involve to immerse oneself thoroughly in (something). idiomatic, transitive

    "All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words."

Example

More examples

"I think you need to deep-dive into this."

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.