Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To dive down in a steep angle.

  2. (intransitive)To perform a rapid fall in price or value.

More definitions
  • plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Pull out of your nosedive, Tom.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From nose + dive.

From nose + dive.

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Forms

nosedives, nosediving, nosedived, nosedived
Base formnosedive · to nosedive
3rd person singularnosedives
Present participlenosediving
Past simplenosedived / nosedove
Past participlenosedived

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynosedive
he, she, itnosedives

Past simpleLesson

all personsnosedived

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave nosedived
he, she, ithas nosedived

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill nosedive

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcrash divepower dive

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
northwesternB1noseA1nosebleednostalgiaC2nostalgicC2nostrilB2

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