crash-dive

1. 1.

   descend steeply and rapidly

   Broaderdive

   air travel

Questions about crash-dive

What does crash-dive mean?

crash-dive means "descend steeply and rapidly".

How many syllables are in crash-dive?

crash-dive has 2 syllables and divides as crash--dive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is crash-dive a common word?

crash-dive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.