Delve Definition

dĕlv

delved, delves, delving

verb

delved, delves, delving

To search deeply and laboriously.

Delved through the court records.

American Heritage

To investigate for information; search (into books, the past, etc.)

Webster's New World

To research or make inquiries into something.

Scientists delving into gene regulation.

American Heritage

To undertake an activity or occupation undeterred by difficulty or uncertainty.

Delved into writing a blog.

American Heritage

To dig with a spade.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

noun

A den or pit dug out.

Webster's New World

Origin of Delve

From Middle English delven, delfan (“to dig, examine, bury, imbed, implant”), from Old English delfan (“to dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelbʰ- (“to dig”). Compare Dutch delven.

From Wiktionary
Middle English delven to dig from Old English delfan

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition