Dictionary Entry
delve
delve is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
- 2transitive verb
To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
- 3intransitive verb
To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
- 4transitive verb
A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
- 5verb
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
"Dig we must"
"turn over the soil for aeration"
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