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"(intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel."
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"ref": "1943, Emile C. Tepperman, Calling Justice, Inc.!",
"text": "She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.",
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"imperfective"
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "dykke ned i"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "penkoa"
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{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "tutkia"
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{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "paneutua"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "fouiller"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "untersuchen"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "erforschen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ergründen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "eintauchen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "wühlen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "sich befassen mit"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "erevnó",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ερευνώ"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "rannsaka"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "kanna"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "investigare"
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{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "indagare"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kâvidan",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "کاویدن"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "investigar"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rýtʹsja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ры́ться"
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"roman": "kopátʹsja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "копа́ться"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "investigar"
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{
"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ahondar"
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"_dis1": "5 92 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zahlybljuvatysja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "заглиблюватися"
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ритися"
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "копатися"
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"ref": "1483, Jacobus de Voragine, translated by William Caxton, The Golden Legend",
"text": "And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1865, Sebastian Evans, Brother Fabian's Manuscript: And Other Poems, page 59",
"text": "They dolve a grave beneath the arrow\nAnd covered it with brere.",
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{
"ref": "1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IV, in The White Company",
"text": "Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done.",
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"To dig; to excavate."
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"(transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate."
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"sense": "to dig the ground",
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"roman": "kopaja",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "grave"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "delven"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "kaivaa"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "creuser"
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "graben"
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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"word": "buddeln"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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"word": "ás"
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "grafa (með skóflu, with a shovel)"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "scavare"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "ほる"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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"word": "dölven"
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"word": "grave"
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"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "کندن"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "cavar"
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "săpa"
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "рыть"
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
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"word": "копа́ть"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "excavar"
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"_dis1": "37 28 35",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "gräva"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "рити"
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"roman": "kopaty",
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"word": "cloddio"
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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"ref": "1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 75",
"text": "I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet.",
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"ref": "1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IV, in The White Company",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "σκαλίζω"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "σκάβω"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "ás"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "grafa (með skóflu, with a shovel)"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "moka"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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},
{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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"code": "nds-de",
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"code": "no",
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"word": "کندن"
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{
"code": "pt",
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to dig in the ground",
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{
"code": "es",
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"code": "cs",
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"word": "pátrat"
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "cs",
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{
"code": "cs",
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "dykke ned i"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "penkoa"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "paneutua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "fouiller"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "untersuchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "erforschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ergründen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "eintauchen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "wühlen"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "sich befassen mit"
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "rannsaka"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "kanna"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "investigare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "indagare"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kâvidan",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "کاویدن"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "investigar"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "rýtʹsja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ры́ться"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "kopátʹsja",
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"word": "копа́ться"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
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},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ahondar"
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{
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "zahlybljuvatysja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "заглиблюватися"
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{
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "rytysja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ритися"
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"code": "uk",
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