take a dive
To decline rapidly.
Other broad market gauges took even steeper dives, with the Standard & Poor's 500, which includes financial stocks, falling 9.93%.
dive
UK /daɪv/ US /daɪv/
noun 6verb 5
Definitions
verb
1
To swim under water.
He dove in the water to save her.
2
To jump into water head-first.
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
3
To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
to dive into home plate
4
To descend sharply or steeply.
[the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District.
5
To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
noun
1
A jump or plunge into water.
the dive of a hawk after prey
2
A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
The 24-year-old Brazilian hurdler Joao Vitor de Oliveira progressed to the Rio competition’s semi-finals by executing a Superman-style dive headfirst over the finishing line – beating South Africa’s Antonio Alkana by one hundredth of a second.
3
A downward swooping motion.
4
A swim under water.
5
A decline.
noun
1
Obsolete form of daeva.
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