DELVING Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

delving 1 of 2

noun

as in investigation

a systematic search for the truth or facts about something we didn't want to pry and did as little personal delving as possible

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delving

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verb

present participle of delve

as in excavating

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Recent Examples of delving

Noun

Danny Brown, Stardust The always fascinating and shape-shifting Danny Brown returns this week with new album Stardust, his delving into the world of hyperpop. — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for delving

Noun

The federal agency closed its civil rights investigation in January 2025, days before President Joe Biden left office.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
An investigation linked the tire jack to a vehicle driven by Dustin Kendall, 37, of New London, police said.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026

Definition of investigation

Verb

The roughly six-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, excavating the Chicxulub crater and vaporizing enormous quantities of rock.

— Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2026
The team tried excavating another unknown soldier from an unrelated case just a day before, but were unsuccessful.

— Hope McKenney, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of excavating

Noun

But capturing a liftoff live from the moon was the next logical step to chronicle NASA's lunar exploration in real-time.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2026
His explorations of being poor, marginal, and stereotyped took many forms, including drawing and painting, which are the focuses of a posthumous exhibition of his work at the Drawing Center.

— Coco Fusco, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of exploration

Verb

There’s more than a bunch of rocks to be found when digging deep underground, but even researchers were surprised after a recent survey beneath the Great Lakes.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 July 2026
Now officials are digging deep, into their pockets at least, to turn things around for the destination previously considered a safe haven in the Middle East.

— Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

Definition of digging

Noun

Kansas City and Independence’s health departments have not responded to inquiries as of Wednesday.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2026
Each year, the department faces lawsuits cataloging records inquiries that the LAPD failed to respond to by the 10-day or 24-day deadline.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of inquiry

Noun

No sentence in corporate life sounds more like the beginning of an examination, and none more dependably marks the end of one.

— Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Among the most notable figures in this year’s report were 157 domestic abuse forensic exams conducted through the organization’s strangulation examination program, which launched in the past two years.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026

Definition of examination

Verb

The series premiering on Starz is, more than anything else, blandly familiar, mining all the tropes of several popular genres without finding anything distinctive in the combination.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
Charcoal production was essential for mining ore in the Harz Mountains.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 July 2026