Deep-dive

Quick meaning: Deep-dive is a verb meaning (intransitive) To engage in deep diving.

Meaning

(intransitive) To engage in deep diving.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, idiomatic, often with into) To conduct an in-depth examination or analysis of a topic.
2. (transitive, idiomatic) To involve to immerse oneself thoroughly in (something).

Example Sentences

Love Daisy Jones & the Six? Spending your free time deep-diving Fleetwood Mac drama? Suddenly need to know literally everything about Riley Keough, including how much she was paid for this show, not to mention her total net worth?

All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

Michod […] told a Venice Film Festival press conference today that the pair “worked out really early on we were going to drift away from the plays themselves. We deep-dived the research and then made a whole bunch of stuff up. I can’t remember what’s real, what’s made up and what’s from Shakespeare,” he laughed.

"The interesting thing as a writer about Snodgrass was that it liberated you from all the clichés about John Lennon, because you could do what you liked with him. There was no official legend of the Beatles to have to fit into," says Quantick, who also wrote a book in 2002, Revolution, which was a deep-dive into the band’s White Album.

Word Forms

• deep-dives
• deep-diving
• deep-dived
• deep-dove

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include profound, dive, delve, sink, depthen, overdeepen.

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