dive
verb (used without object)
to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
dived
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past participleof dive.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dive.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
diveverb (used without object)to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
Example Sentences
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Hong Kong also dived more than three percent, with NetEase and Tencent taking a battering, while Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com were also weighed by government calls for tighter quality standards.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Workers used nets fixed to floating pontoons late Wednesday to guide the animal gradually, but it dived beneath a net and returned to the canal overnight, authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Four ocean rescue swimmers jumped into the ocean and dived down to the submerged vehicle, where they were able to successfully extract the victim, who was later identified by her family as Alli Renee Singh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
One writer sailing the Persian Gulf in 1939 described how 32 men each dived 100 times beneath the sea, filling seven sacks with oysters, only to find a “teaspoonful” of low-grade pearls in their haul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
I filled my lungs with as much air as they could take and dived back down, hoping I’d imagined the whole thing and would find the net empty as we’d left it.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
