English Dictionary

delve

/dɛlv/

verb

(intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel. / (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

He likes to delve into ancient history.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

I cannot delve him to the root.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.

And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory […]