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POWER-DIVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they power-dive ... he / she / it power-dives
Past simple: power-dived
Past participle: power-dived
-ing form: power-diving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a power dive
Example:
The airplane power-dived
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "power-dive" is one way to...):
dive; plunge; plunk (drop steeply)
Domain category:
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to power-dive
