delve

About 0.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
2. verb To dig; to excavate.
3. verb To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
4. noun A pit or den.

Similar words

dig turn over cut into excavate immerse plunge dive strip-search widen probe

Often followed by

into deeper more deeply further in deep too a and

Word family

delved delver delvers delves delving