Usually means: Explore or research deeply, thoroughly.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word delve:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. delve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. delve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Delve, delve: Wordnik
  7. delve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. delve: Wiktionary
  9. delve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delve: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Delve, delve: Dictionary.com
  13. delve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. delve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Delve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Delve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. delve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. delve: Rhymezone
  19. delve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. delve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. delve: Free Dictionary
  22. delve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. delve: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. delve: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delve: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DELVE: Acronym Finder
  2. delve: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delve: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.
▸ noun:  (now rare) A pit or den.
▸ noun:  A surname from Old English.

Similar:
dig, turn over, cut into, undelve, sink, dig out, excavate, dig up, dredge, shovel out, more...

Opposite:
surface, skim, glance, overlook

Types:
explore, investigate, scrutinize, probe, examine, research, analyze, study, more...

Phrases:
delve into, delve in, delve deeper, delve i, to delve, more...


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Similar:
dig, turn over, cut into, undelve, sink, dig out, excavate, dig up, dredge, shovel out, more...

Opposite:
surface, skim, glance, overlook

Types:
explore, investigate, scrutinize, probe, examine, research, analyze, study, more...

Phrases:
delve into, delve in, delve deeper, delve i, to delve, to delve into a topic, delve deeply, delve deep, delve beneath, more...



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