Dives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIVES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DIVE, to plunge headfirst into water
• (of a fish or submarine) go to a deeper level in water
• swim under water using breathing equipment
• (of an aircraft or bird) plunge steeply downwards through the air
• move quickly or suddenly in a specified direction
• (of prices or profits) drop suddenly
• (of a player) deliberately fall when challenged in order to deceive the referee into awarding a foul
• plunge head first into water with one's arms raised over one's head
• put one's hand quickly into a pocket or bag in order to find something
NOUN:
• a plunge head first into water
• an instance of swimming or going deeper under water
• a steep descent by an aircraft or bird
• a sudden movement in a specified direction
• a sudden marked fall in prices or profits
• a deliberate fall by a player, intended to deceive the referee into awarding a foul.
• a shabby or sleazy bar or similar establishment
• The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord\'s parable of the \"Rich Man and Lazarus\" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

Words related to DIVES

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Words that contain DIVES

divest10 divests11 endives11 updives13 divested13 khedives19 skydives19 divesting14 divesture13 nosedives13 divestible16 divestment16 divestures14 gerundives15 undivested15 divestiture15 divestments17 divestitures16 undivestedly20 postdivestiture21

How to use DIVES in a sentence

• There is, therefore, a tendency toward the crowding of dives, assembling on the corners of streets and the commission of petty offences which crowd them into the police courts.
• It is essentially poetical, because the deeper that the man of science dives into the mystery, the darker and more bewildering it becomes.
• Dives was the place of assemblage appointed for fleet and army.
• Saw two sea leopards this evening, one in the water making short, lazy dives under the floes.
• The brook flows murmuring by, with an occasional splash, as a water-rat dives from the bank or a fish rises to an insect.
• I speak of the unselfish desire of Dives to save his brothers.
• Larry and Sally were now as ragged as Dives and Lazarus, and their childher the same.
• He returns her glance fourfold, upon which she instantly dives behind Mrs.
• When a swimmer has improved and added speed to his racing stroke, he should practise shallow racing dives and how to turn sharply in a tank.
• He dives deep into science, history and his own imagination to prove things.
• Dives also is described as recollecting with intense interest, with the most anxious sympathy, his endangered brethren on earth.
• He sails in ships upon the surface of the ocean and dives into its depths in submarines.
• He sails at high speed upon the ocean and dives beneath its surface in submarines.
• Though an animal fitted by nature to live upon the surface of the earth he flies in the air like a bird, sails upon the ocean and dives deep beneath its waves in submarines.
• Now, instead of its proud chateau, Dives has a ruin even more lovely, though infinitely sad.
• I remembered the account of Dives in torment, and shuddered.
• And in two of the dives second place went to Margery Burton, while one of the Boy Scouts, Jack Perry, was second in the other four.
• If the second kite is close enough, the first tries to spear him by swift dives.
• From, the corner saloons of the Upper West Side to the dives of the Bowery, he poured in whiskey and yet more whiskey.
• Then the writer dives into obscurity, but presently reappears and adds that he does not know where she got her education.
• Every sound meant Germans to them, and their first mile was a succession of sallies forward, interspersed with sudden dives underneath the hedge by the roadside.
• Dull as he might have found Dives, yet I am sure the Conquering Hero would have preferred returning to Paris, to risking the discomfort of the crossing.
• By the way, the appropriate station in Paris for Dives would be Saint-Lazaire.
• This method of teaching was similar to that which Jesus used, for example, in the parable of Dives and Lazarus.
• A fever stiffened him, he worked on with the blind obstinacy of an artist who dives into his entrails, to drag therefrom the fruit that tortures him.
• It cost a hundred thousand to level that lawn there, and Dives paid the money cheerfully.
• But innumerable dives thereby secured the business which had gone to the open places in the days of toleration.
• In a few years Lazarus may be in heaven and Dives in hell.
• He dives again and again in his pursuit of folly, even tying stones to his wrists and ankles to keep himself down while he gathers the reflected fruit.
• We came at length to the ridge where the road dives suddenly into Tregarrick.

Similar words containing DIVE without suffix s

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