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

1. transitive verb. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
2. transitive verb. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
3. intransitive verb. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
4. transitive verb. A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
5. verb. turn up, loosen, or remove earth

   "Dig we must"

   "turn over the soil for aeration"

   Synonyms: dig

Synonyms

dig

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in delve:

devel

Common word forms

delved, delver, delves, delving

Words from these letters

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