Synonyms of the word nosedive


NOSEDIVEDECLINE - DESCENT - DIMINUTION - DIVE - PLUNGE - PLUNK

nosedive

  • n. A headfirst fall or jump.
  • n. (economics) A rapid fall in price or value.
  • v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To dive down in a steep angle.
  • v. (intransitive, economy) To perform a rapid fall in price or value.

decline

  • n. Downward movement, fall.
  • n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
  • n. A weakening.
  • n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
  • v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
  • v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
  • v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
  • v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
  • v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
  • v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
  • v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

descent

  • n. An instance of descending.
  • n. A way down.
  • n. A sloping passage or incline.
  • n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
  • n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
  • n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

diminution

  • n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
  • n. The act or process of making diminutive.
  • n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

dive

  • v. To swim under water.
  • v. To jump into water head-first.
  • v. To descend sharply or steeply.
  • v. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
  • v. (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's…
  • v. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
  • v. (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  • v. (figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to…
  • n. A jump or plunge into water.
  • n. A swim under water.
  • n. A decline.
  • n. (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
  • n. (aviation) Aerial descend with the nose pointed down.
  • n. (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
  • n. plural of diva.

plunge

  • n. the act of plunging or submerging.
  • n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
  • n. (dated) A swimming pool.
  • n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
  • n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
  • n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or…
  • v. (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
  • v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
  • v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
  • v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

plunk

  • v. (transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.
  • v. (intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.
  • v. (baseball, transitive) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.
  • v. (intransitive, of a raven) To croak.
  • v. (transitive) To pluck and quickly release (a musical string); to twang.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
  • n. The dull thud of something landing on a surface.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
  • n. (slang, obsolete, US) A dollar.

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