delve

  1. Verb.  (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To dig, to excavate.
  4. Noun.  (context, now) A pit or den.

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