delve (redirected from delves)

delve  (dlv)

v. delved, delv·ing, delves

v.intr.

1. To search deeply and laboriously: delved into the court records.

2. To dig the ground, as with a spade.

v.tr.

Archaic To dig (ground) with a spade.

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[Middle English delven, to dig, from Old English delfan.]

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delver n.

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delve

Verb

[delving, delved]

1. to research deeply or intensively (for information)

2. Old-fashioned to dig [Old English delfan]

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

delve - turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" cut into, dig, turn over remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" furrow, groove, rut - hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" rootle, rout, root - dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" spade - dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds" shovel - dig with or as if with a shovel; "shovel sand"; "he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long" trowel - use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work burrow, tunnel - move through by or as by digging; "burrow through the forest"

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delve

verb 1. research, investigate, explore, examine, probe, look into, burrow into, dig into

verb 2. rummage, search, look, burrow, ransack, forage, dig, fossick Austral., N.Z.

Translations

delve [dɛlv] vi to delve into → hurgar en

delve [dɛlv] vi to delve into → fouiller dans

delve [dɛlv] vi to delve into (subject) → sich eingehend befassen mit;

(cupboard, handbag) → tief greifen in +acc

delve [dɛlv] vi to delve into → frugare in [+ subject]; far ricerche in