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Uttal

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Definitioner

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  2. (ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
  3. (ambitransitive) To dig, to excavate.

Substantiv

  1. (now rare) A pit or den.

Exempel

  • When Adam dalf and Eve span, / Who was then a gentleman?
  • Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
  • I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might - it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.
  • I cannot delve him to the root.
  • She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.
  • And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory ...
  • Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done.
  • 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 [...].
  • I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might - it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down..

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipdolvenPerfektparticipdelved
ImperfektdelvedImperfektdalf
PresensparticipdelvingPluraldelves
Tredje person singular indicativ presensdelvesTredje person singular indicativ presensdelveth