dived

Verb

dive (third-person singular simple present dives, present participle diving, simple past dived or (chiefly US and Canada) dove, past participle dived or (chiefly US and Canada) dove or (rare, nonstandard) doven or (rare, nonstandard) diven)

1. (intransitive) To swim under water.
   • He dove in the water to save her.
2. (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
   • It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
3. (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
   • to dive into home plate
4. (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
   • [the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 49
5. (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
6. (especially, intransitive) To undertake with enthusiasm.
   • She dove right in and started making improvements.

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