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[ delv ] / dɛlv / SEE SYNONYMS FOR delve ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used without object), delved, delv·ing.to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate: to delve into the issue of prison reform. Archaic. to dig, as with a spade. verb (used with object), delved, delv·ing.Archaic. to dig; excavate. Origin of delvebefore 900; Middle English delven,Old English delfan; cognate with Dutch delven,Old High German telban SYNONYMS FOR delve1 research, inquire, probe, examine, explore. SEE SYNONYMS FOR delve ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM delvedelver, nounun·delved, adjectiveDictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for delveDelving deeper into this despair, photographs of “The Forgotten Ones” examine the lives of various groups of Latin American women. In ‘Urbes Mutantes,’ Scenes From Latin America’s Transformations|Justin Jones|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Delving into why this slaughter never happened uncovers a story of spy-craft, subterfuge and tightly-kept secrets. The Woman Who Saved Syria’s Jews|Emma Beals|March 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST By delving into her own experience, Carucci was able to examine more deeply the universality of motherhood. Elinor Carucci Captures the Messy, Beautiful Reality of Motherhood|Amy Zimmerman|November 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST I worked with Ann Roth as well, and it was the same approach to delving beneath the material. Kate Bosworth Is Back and Crazy in Love|Erin Cunningham|November 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Telling too much or delving too deep, would turn it into a drama. Shirley MacLaine on ‘Bernie,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ and Her Lifetime Achievments|Lorenza Muñoz|April 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST And there, to this very day, men who love the story are delving after the dead city as you might search for a buried treasure. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew|Josephine Preston Peabody By delving in about the wreck, Tom was able to get out the gasolene stove. Tom Swift and his Wireless Message|Victor Appleton After delving all day, they cooked and ate their supper, and then sat by the camp fire. Then and Now|Robert Vaughn In truth, the enigmas of the Hayti affair can be solved only by delving in the Spanish archives. William Pitt and the Great War|John Holland Rose A group of soldiers approached slowly, delving into pockets for weapons, peering into opened pieces of baggage.
British Dictionary definitions for delve
verb (mainly intr; often foll by in or into)to inquire or research deeply or intensively (for information, etc)he delved in the Bible for quotations to search or rummage (in a drawer, the pockets, etc) (esp of an animal) to dig or burrow deeply (into the ground, etc) (also tr) archaic, or dialect to dig or turn up (earth, a garden, etc), as with a spade Derived forms of delvedelver, nounWord Origin for delveOld English delfan; related to Old High German telban to dig, Russian dolbit to hollow out with a chisel Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to delveinquire, burrow, prospect, rummage, search, shovel, unearth, explore, dig, investigate, research, probe, examine, dredge, ransack, sift, seek, excavate, spade, trowel |