delve

Plural: delves

Verb

Verb Forms: delved, delving, delves

To make a careful, detailed search for information.
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
To dig; to excavate.

Noun

A pit or den.

Examples

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Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

cut into, dig, turn over, investigate, research

Scrabble Score: 9

delve: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
delve: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
delve: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

delve: valid Words With Friends Word