delve
delve is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
- 2.To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
- 3.A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- article
- canvass
- commentary
- commentator
- consideration
- critic
- criticism
- critique
- deal
- descant
- discourse
- discoursive
- discursive
- discuss
- discussion
- disquisition
- disquisitionary
- dissert
- dissertation
- editorial
- essay
- essayist
- excursus
- explanation
- exposition
- expository
- expound
- forth
- handle
- hold
- homily
- inquiry
- into
- investigation
- justice
- leader
- leading
- lecture
- length
- memoir
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is delve.
- What is to dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak called?
- What is to dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3) called?
- What is a place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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