Dictionary Entry

delve

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/dɛlv/Used In Literature ↓

To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.

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Common Phrases

deeper delvedeeply delvefurther delvedeep delve

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Poetry examples for “delve”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Or over children that are sleeping;
And we who delve in beauty’s lore
Know all that we have known before

For all our pomp and pageantry and powers
We are but fit to delve the common clay,
Seeing this little isle on which we stand,

Delve away beneath the surface,
There is treasure farther down,--

When midnight imps of King Decay
Delve sly to solve me back to clay,
Should leave some print to prove her spirit-kisses real;