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DELVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they delve ... he / she / it delves
Past simple: delved
Past participle: delved
-ing form: delving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn up, loosen, or remove earth
Example:
turn over the soil for aeration
Synonyms:
cut into; delve; dig; turn over
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "delve" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "delve"):
furrow; groove; rut (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)
root; rootle; rout (dig with the snout)
spade (dig (up) with a spade)
shovel (dig with or as if with a shovel)
trowel (use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work)
burrow; tunnel (move through by or as by digging)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
