delve

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  1. intransitive verb To search deeply and laboriously: delved into the court records.
  2. intransitive verb To dig the ground, as with a spade.
  3. transitive verb Archaic To dig (ground) with a spade.

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  • After six years in the Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch, the instinct to delve is still strong, even though I know I should get out and leave the crime scene to the plods. —  EQMM,March-April2006
  • Here they were to live in peasant fashion, Adam to delve, and Eve to spin. —  Count Leon Tolstoi
  • • Two case study seminars - one featuring a SIP trunk installation for American Idol's production company, the other on bundled SIP trunk solutions - to delve deeper into the issues —  VoIP & Gadgets Blog
  • New tracks on "Shattering the Myths of SIP Communications" will delve into VoIP security and simplifying enterprise deployments. —  VoIP & Gadgets Blog
  • Myers replied that it's hard for him to "delve in the political arena" and "the last thing I'm gonna do as a former Chairman, is get in the way of a new president, new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." —  News Hounds
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English delven, to dig, from Old English delfan.

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  1. from Middle English delven (preterit dalf, dolve, past participle dolven), from Anglo-Saxon delfan (preterit dealf, plural dulfon, past participle dolfen) = OFries. delva = Dutch delven, dig, = Old Saxon bi-delbhan = Old High German bi-telban, bury.
  2. from Middle English delve; the same word as delf, q. v.; from the verb.
 

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