Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

take a dive

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables: take a -dive
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To decline rapidly.

verb

To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally.

verb

To lose or fail intentionally.

Example Sentences

"Other broad market gauges took even steeper dives, with the Standard & Poor's 500, which includes financial stocks, falling 9.93%."
"I decided there could be a nice bit of irony in a situation where a boxer, with a crown his for the taking, deliberately takes a dive to get revenge on the man he hates, who is betting everything on the boxer's victory."
""You got a fight next weekend. You take a dive in the fourth round, understand?""
"The businessman turned promoter rejected some of overseas rumors going around that Klitschko bet a large portion of funds on himself and then took a dive to collect."

Inflected Forms

takes a dive (present, singular) taking a dive (participle, present) took a dive (past) taken a dive (participle, past)

Synonyms

throw

Questions

What does take a dive mean?: To decline rapidly.

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