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delve 音标拼音: [d'ɛlv] vt.
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n. 坑,穴 探究,查考坑,穴 delve v 1: turn up, loosen, or remove earth; " Dig we must"; " turn over the soil for aeration" [ synonym: { dig}, { delve}, { cut into}, { turn over}] Delve \ Delve\ v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Delved}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Delving}.] [ AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury, D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf. { Delf} a mine.] 1. To dig; to open ( the ground) as with a spade. [ 1913 Webster] Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. [ 1913 Webster] I can not delve him to the root. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Delve \ Delve\, v. i. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. [ 1913 Webster] Delve may I not: I shame to beg. -- Wyclif ( Luke xvi. 3). [ 1913 Webster]
Delve \ Delve\, n. [ See { Delve}, v. t., and cf. { Delf} a mine.] A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. [ 1913 Webster] Which to that shady delve him brought at last. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] The very tigers from their delves Look out. -- Moore. [ 1913 Webster]
Delf \ Delf\ ( d[ e^] lf), n. [ AS. delf a delving, digging. See { Delve}.] A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. [ Written also { delft}, and { delve}.] [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. -- Ray. [ 1913 Webster] 76 Moby Thesaurus words for " delve": backset, beat the bushes, bore, burrow, cavity, cultivate, culture, cut, dig, dig out, dike, dredge, dress, drill, drive, excavate, explore, fallow, fertilize, forage, force, frisk, furrow, go through, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub, harrow, hoe, hollow, hunt, list, look around, look round, look through, lower, mine, mulch, nose around, plow, pocket, poke, poke around, prune, pry, quarry, rake, research, root, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, search, search through, shovel, sink, smell around, spade, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, trench, trough, tunnel, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, weed, weed out, work
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