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scavare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bore verb To make someone feel uninterested and tired through dullness.
  • delve verb To search thoroughly into something, especially information or a topic, in order to learn more.
  • dig verb To move earth aside, typically with a tool, in order to make a hole.
  • drill verb To make a hole in something using a rotating cutting tool.
  • entrench verb To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
  • mine pron Belonging to me; the possessive form of "I" used on its own, without a following noun.

Senses

scavare is used for these senses in English:

  • bore (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
  • delve (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
  • dig (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
  • drill (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
  • entrench (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
  • mine To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.

bore — full definition

  1. verb To make someone feel uninterested and tired through dullness.
  2. verb To drill a hole through something.
  3. noun A person or thing that is dull and uninteresting.
  4. noun The inner diameter of a tube or gun barrel.

delve — full definition

  1. verb To search thoroughly into something, especially information or a topic, in order to learn more.
  2. verb To dig into the ground.

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