Delve
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɛlv/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Delve is a verb meaning (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
Meaning
(intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
More Meanings
- (ambitransitive) To dig; to excavate.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
- (now rare) A pit or den.
Example Sentences
Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
They dolve a grave beneath the arrow / And covered it with brere.
Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done.
And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory […]
Word Forms
- delves
- delving
- delved
Synonyms for delve
Depending on context, synonyms include investigate, research, dig.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dig, excavate, immerse, plunge, dive, widen.
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