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delve
verb [I] /delv/Definition
› to search, especially as if by digging, in order to find a thing or information: She delved into her pocket to find some change.Searching
(Definition of delve verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber noun
- bounty hunter noun
- burrow verb
- cast around/about phrasal verb
- dig verb (SEARCH)
- divine verb (SEARCH)
- look sth out phrasal verb
- manhunt noun
- nose verb (SEARCH)
- once-over noun (LOOKING)
- poke around phrasal verb
- quest noun
- scout noun (SEARCH)
- scout verb
- shake sb/somewhere down phrasal verb
- shakedown noun (SEARCH)
- strip search noun
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
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