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delve
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Delve
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delve
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/
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verb,
delved,
delv·ing.
verb (used without object)
1.
to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate:
to delve into the issue of prison reform.
2.
Archaic.
to dig, as with a spade.
verb (used with object)
3.
Archaic.
to dig; excavate.
Origin:
before 900;
Middle English
delven,
Old English
delfan;
cognate with
Dutch
delven,
Old High German
telban
Related forms
delv·er,
noun
un·delved,
adjective
Synonyms
1.
research, inquire, probe, examine, explore.
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World English Dictionary
delve
(dɛlv)
—
vb
1.
to inquire or research deeply or intensively (for information, etc):
he delved in the Bible for quotations
2.
to search or rummage (in a drawer, the pockets, etc)
3.
(esp of an animal) to dig or burrow deeply (into the ground, etc)
4.
archaic
,
dialect
or
(
also tr
) to dig or turn up (earth, a garden, etc), as with a spade
[Old English
delfan;
related to Old High German
telban
to dig, Russian
dolbit
to hollow out with a chisel]
'delver
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
delve
O.E. delfan "to dig" (class III strong verb; past tense dealf, pp. dolfen), common W.Gmc. verb with cognates in Slavic. Weak inflections emerged 14c.-16c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Nevertheless, the best tales
delve
deep into human nature, illuminating its
darkest impulses and noblest inclinations.
Geologists
delve
into their prehistoric records.
Authors who have sought to
delve
into its history are routinely refused
publication.
We
delve
in to the data within the industry and compare the trends and changing
strategies.
I'm still pretty excited to
delve
back into my favorite city.
In a way, if you
delve
deep enough into history, you can study just about anything under its umbrella.
This places limits on just how deeply photoacoustic imaging can
delve
.
Critics cited it as a sign that the investigators might have felt intimidated to
delve
too deeply into the case.
For those kind of eye-popping figures, you have to
delve
into the minutiae of the data.
Delve
into the natural world with science books and nature books.
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"O if we but knew what we do
When we
delve
or hew—
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being so slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or
delve
:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been."
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
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