Definizione monolingua

delve

delve (third-person singular simple present delves, present participle delving, simple past delved or obsolete dalf, past participle delved or obsolete dolven)

1. (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.

   • When Adam dalf and Eve span, / Who was then a gentleman? — John Ball

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter 29.

     I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might - it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.

2. (intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

   • I cannot delve him to the root. — Shakspeare
   • She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.

3. (transitive) To dig, to excavate.

   • And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory ... — The Golden Legend

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, chapter IV.

     Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done.

delve (plural delves)

1. (now rare) A pit or den.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:

     the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day [...].

Definizione dizionario delve

delve

fare ricerche

indagare

scavare

zappare

Altri significati:

to dig in the ground

(now rare) A pit or den.

(transitive) To dig, to excavate.

(intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information.

to search carefully for information

(intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.