delve vs muck

delve

verb
  • To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel. 

  • To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out 

  • To dig; to excavate. 

muck

verb
  • To shovel muck. 

  • To manure with muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

noun
  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

How often have the words delve and muck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )