delve

CEFRC1

/dɛlv/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To search deeply for information or facts.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To dig; to excavate.

Examples

  • A variety of films delve into such themes.

  • You're going to have to delve deeper if you want to get to the truth.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

  2. To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A pit or den.

More examples

In context

  • Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.

  • I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet.

  • They dolve a grave beneath the arrow / And covered it with brere.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan (“to dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelbʰ- (“to dig”). Cognate with West Frisian dolle (“to dig, delve”), Dutch delven (“to dig, delve”), Low German dölven (“to dig, delve”), dialectal German delben, telben (“to dig, delve”).