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DELVES: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DELVES?

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Associations of "Delves" (30 Words)

Associations of "Delves" (30 Words)

archaeologist	An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture. Chinese archaeologists uncovered life sized terracotta statues.
burrow	Dig into or through something solid. Journalists are burrowing into the prime minister s business affairs.
colliery	A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.
coxswain	The person who steers a ship’s boat, racing boat, or other boat.
dig	An act or spell of digging. Authorities cause chaos by digging up roads.
disinter	Discover (something that is well hidden. His corpse was disinterred and dumped in a pit.
dug	An udder or breast or teat.
excavate	Reveal or extract (buried remains) while excavating an area. Clothing and weapons were excavated from the burial site.
excavation	The site of an archeological exploration. Inside the excavation* were the bones of some huge creature.*
exhume	Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried. Various landforms have been exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments.
furrow	Cut a furrow into a columns. Gorges furrowing the deep sea floor.
gold	Made of or coloured like gold. 9 carat gold.
granite	Something having the quality of granite unyielding firmness. Granite columns.
gravel	A stratum or deposit of gravel. The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
groove	Make a groove or grooves in. The rhythm section grooves in the true Basie manner.
harrow	Draw a harrow over land. Todd could take it whereas I m harrowed by it.
hole	Hit the ball into the hole. George holed a six iron shot from the fairway.
inhume	Place in a grave or tomb. No hand his bones shall gather or inhume.
investigate	Investigate scientifically. Everyone with a possible interest in your brother s death must be thoroughly investigated.
mine	Lay mines. The Vietnamese mined Cambodia.
pit	An orchestra pit. The recent protests over planned pit* closures.*
plow	To break and turn over earth especially with a plow. Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week.
quarry	Extract stone or other materials from a quarry. A British term for quarry* is stone pit.*
scoop	The quantity a scoop will hold. He got a scoop* on the bribery of city officials.*
seed	Of a plant reproduce itself by means of its own seeds. Seed grapes.
shovel	Move coal earth snow or a similar substance with a shovel. A few shovels of earth.
tiller	Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers.
turnover	The ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers. An apple turnover.
underground	An underground railway especially the one in London. Sections of electricity line had been undergrounded.
unearth	Bring to light. The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President.