DELVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they delve ... he / she / it delves

Past simple: delved

Past participle: delved

-ing form: delving

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:

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