Sekirov Dictionary

delve

/dɛlv/

verb 3
noun 1
forms 7

verb3

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(literary) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
- Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor. — 1697
•
(figurative) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
- I cannot delve him to the root. — 1611
(literary) To dig; to excavate.

noun1

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(no longer used) A pit or den.
- the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day [...]. — 1590

forms

delved · dolve · dolven · delving · delves · delveth · delvest

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