Analysis Complete

delve

/ delve /

verb

Definitions & Examples

verb Sense 1

turn up, loosen, or remove earth

"Dig we must"

"turn over the soil for aeration"

Type of:

remove take take away

Kinds of:

furrow rut groove rout root

Derived:

dig excavation archeological site digging power shovel

See also:

excavate dig up turn up pitch in dig in

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s something

Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

Somebody ----s something with something

Semantic Complexity

21%

Sense Count

1

Total Synonyms

0

Total Relationships

18

Times Searched

3

Relationship Distribution

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Related Words

remove take take away furrow rut groove rout root