See delve in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.",
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"word": "scavare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "ほる"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "dölven"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "grave"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kandan",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "کندن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "cavar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "săpa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rytʹ",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "рыть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kopátʹ",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "копа́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "cavar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "excavar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "gräva"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ryty",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "рити"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kopaty",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "копати"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "cloddio"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "to dig in the ground",
"word": "dolle"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "afondar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rovja se",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ровя се"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rýt se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "hrabat se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zkoumat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pátrat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vypátrat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vyhrabat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vyzkoumat"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "dykke ned i"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "penkoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "tutkia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "paneutua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"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"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "wühlen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "sich befassen mit"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "erevnó",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ερευνώ"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "rannsaka"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "kanna"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"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"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "investigar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rýtʹsja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ры́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kopátʹsja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "копа́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "investigar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ahondar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "hurguetear"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zahlybljuvatysja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "заглиблюватися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "rytysja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "ритися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kopatysja",
"sense": "to search carefully for information",
"word": "копатися"
}
],
"word": "delve"
}
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"3": "delve"
},
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"name": "inh"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English delve, delf, dælf, from Old English delf, ġedelf (“digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug out, delf, ditch”). More at delf.",
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"word": "stonedelf"
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
"text": "the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day [...].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A pit or den."
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"den",
"den"
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],
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"(now rare) A pit or den."
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{
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],
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}
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