Word Meanings - DIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

duven, AS. d to sink, v. t., fr. d, v. i.; akin to Icel. d, G. 1. To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately.

Additional info about word: DIVE

duven, AS. d to sink, v. t., fr. d, v. i.; akin to Icel. d, G. 1. To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately. Note: The colloquial form dove is common in the United States as an imperfect tense form. All dove down with a tremendous splash. Dr. Hayes. When closely pressed it dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water. J. Burroughs. 2. Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVE)

• Delve
• Dig
• penetrate
• dive
• investigate
• search
• Plunge
• Dip
• douse
• duck
• submerge
• immerse
• precipitate
• sink
• overwhelm
• thrust under
• pitch headlong

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVE)

• Pretermit
• disregard
• abandon
• misinvestigate

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  Negligently; heedlessly.
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• UNDERPLOT
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• UNDERNICENESS
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  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
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  To delve under.
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