All belly-flop synonyms
belΒ·ly-flop
B b verb belly-flop
- plummet β Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- hurtle β to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- tumble β to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
- drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- go down β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- drive β to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- jump β to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- sink β to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- dip β to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- throw β to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- descend β If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
- nose-dive β a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- propel β to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- duck β any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- dash β If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- pitch β to smear or cover with pitch.
- submerse β to submerge.
- career β A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.
- lurch β Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- swoop β to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
- topple β to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
- fling β to throw, cast, or hurl with force or violence: to fling a stone.
- lunge β a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
- submerge β to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- thrust β to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- sound β The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3β30 miles (5β48 km) wide.
- rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- immerse β to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
- tear β the act of tearing.
- plunk β to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- cast β The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
- keel β a red ocher stain used for marking sheep, lumber, etc.; ruddle.
- immerge β to plunge, as into a fluid.
- go whole hog β Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
- shoot the works β exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.