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Definition of crash-dive verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

crash-dive

verb

[intransitive]Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they crash-dive

he / she / it crash-dives

past simple crash-dived

-ing form crash-diving

(of an aircraft) to go steeply downward and then crash

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