Delve
[delv] or [dɛlv]
Definition
(v. t.) To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
(v. t.) To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
(v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
(v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. & n. Dig.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dig, penetrate, dive, investigate, search
ANT:Scratch, rake, slur, dabble, dally, skim
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Definition
v.t. and v.i. to dig with a spade.—n. (Spens.) a place dug out a ditch a cave.—n. Delv′er.
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Examples
- This led his eager mind to delve into Italian literature, and shortly the young workman was not only draughtsman and artist, but something of a man of letters as well. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In it is a marble chair which Helena used to sit in while she superintended her workmen when they were digging and delving for the True Cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The fashion of delving out fulfillments of prophecy where that prophecy consists of mere ifs, trenches upon the absurd. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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