English Dictionary

crash dive

verb

(intransitive, idiomatic, often hyphenated, submarine operation) To perform a crash dive. / (transitive, idiomatic, often hyphenated, submarine operation) To cause (a submarine) to perform a crash dive.

The submarine had to crash dive to avoid detection.

意味（1）

(intransitive, idiomatic, often hyphenated, submarine operation) To perform a crash dive.

Cuthburt turned the Grandmere in time to see the U-69 within yards of his ship. Graf wasted no time in taking evasive action, crash diving and turning, barely escaping the Grandmere’s efforts to ram him.

意味（2）

(transitive, idiomatic, often hyphenated, submarine operation) To cause (a submarine) to perform a crash dive.

Siegmann was still obliged to crash-dive the sub three more times to escape twelve more bombs.

意味（3）

(intransitive, often hyphenated) To rapidly descend, intentionally or accidentally, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.

At 0640 hours, a Japanese suicide plane crash-dove into the USS Gilligan.

意味（4）

(transitive, often hyphenated) To rapidly descend, in a manner that ends in a violent collision with (something).

Twenty-two Jap suicide planes sighted destroyer off Okinawa April 16 and for more than two hours bombed and crash-dived the ship in a wild and apparently unorganized attack.

意味（5）

(transitive, often hyphenated) To cause (something) to descend rapidly, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.

[T]he Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships.