Crossword-Solution: DELVE 5 letters, 120 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Delve	v. t.	To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Delve	v. t.	To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
Delve	v. i.	To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
Delve	v. t.	A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DELVE	anagram	DEVEL, VELDE

We have 120 clues for the answer “DELVE”

Clue	Answers
"Dig" (into books, etc.) for information.	1 answer
"Let's ___ deeper." (phrase overused by ChatGPT)	1 answer
Burrow (into)	1 answer
Carry on intensive research	1 answer
Conduct an exhaustive probe	1 answer
Conduct exhaustive research (into)	1 answer
Conduct painstaking research	1 answer
Dig deep (into)	1 answer
Dig deeply with into	1 answer
Dig deeply (into)	1 answer
Dig for data	1 answer
Dig into files	1 answer
Dig, as for information	1 answer
Do a deep dive (into)	1 answer
Do a deep dive, say	1 answer
Do exhaustive research	1 answer
Do intensive research	1 answer
Do painstaking research	1 answer
Do research work	1 answer
Don't just scratch the surface	1 answer
Examine carefully, with "into"	1 answer
Examine closely, with "into"	1 answer
Go deep into	1 answer
Go deeper into matters	1 answer
Go deeply (into)	1 answer
Inquire deeply	1 answer
Investigate deeply (with "into")	1 answer
Investigate intensely	1 answer
Look closely (into)	1 answer
Look deeply	1 answer
Look deeply (into)	1 answer
Look into deeply	1 answer
Look thoroughly (into)	1 answer
Probe deeply	1 answer
Reach (into), as an oversized purse	1 answer
Research deeply	1 answer
Research intensely	1 answer
Research intensively	1 answer
Rummage deeply	1 answer
SEEK laboriously	1 answer
Search deeply (into)	1 answer
Search deeply (with "into")	1 answer
Search for data	1 answer
Search for facts.	1 answer
Search for information	1 answer
Search, with "into"	1 answer
To dig	1 answer
__ into (investigate)	1 answer
___ into (examine)	1 answer
___ into (explore in depth)	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NAROCE

Hint 3 another clue

COVER THE EYES

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Sentences with DELVE (5)

Some, to the fountain; some, to the fields; men and women here, to dig and delve; men and women there, to see to the poor live stock, and lead the bony cows out, to such pasture as could be found by the roadside.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Yet, these gentlemen, although proud of Frederick Douglass, failed to fathom, and bring out to the light of day, the highest qualities of his mind; the force of their own education stood in their own way: they did not delve into the mind of a colored man for capacities which the pride of race led them to believe to be restricted to their own Saxon blood.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

The maister seide, under the glas, And tolde him eke, as for the Myn He wolde ordeigne such engin, That thei the werk schull undersette With Tymber, that withoute lette Men mai the tresor saufli delve, So that the Mirour be himselve 2160 Withoute empeirement schal stonde: And this the maister upon honde Hath undertake in alle weie.

Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995

The larger humanity strives to feel in this contact of living Nations and sleeping hordes a thrill of new life in the world, crying, “If the contact of Life and Sleep be Death, shame on such Life.” To be sure, behind this thought lurks the afterthought of force and dominion,—the making of brown men to delve when the temptation of beads and red calico cloys.

The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1996

From wanting to reach the ears of Kate Swift, and through his sermons to delve into her soul, he began to want also to look again at the figure lying white and quiet in the bed.

Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1996

Quotes with DELVE (3)

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

Jon Stewart

This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple 'I must' then build your lfie according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Prosthetics can fix physical disabilities. But no prosthetic can fix an amputated spirit. So, don't let the society devoid you from your own spirit. Be brave and upright, and delve into even the depth of doom to achieve your goal.

Abhijit Naskar

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 136 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).