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deep-dove

deep-dove is the simple past of deep-dive.

Meaning of deep-dive

Verb

deep-dive (third-person singular simple present deep-dives, present participle deep-diving, simple past deep-dived or (chiefly US) deep-dove, past participle deep-dived)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in deep diving.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive, often) To conduct an in-depth examination or analysis of a topic.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To involve to immerse oneself thoroughly in (something).
    • 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.2012 [2011], Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?, Bath: Windsor, →ISBN, page 9

Questions about deep-dove

What is deep-dove the simple past of?
Deep-dove is the simple past of deep-dive.

Words near deep-dove in the dictionary

  1. deep-dish pizzas
  2. deep-dive
  3. deep-dived
  4. deep-dives
  5. deep-diving
  6. deep-dove
  7. deep-draw
  8. deep-drawed
  9. deep-drawing
  10. deep-drawn
  11. deep-draws

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deep-dove (page history and authors); deep-dive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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