(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it. (LITERARY)
She never abandoned her attempts to ~ my innermost emotions...
= fathom
VERB: V n
2.
When someone ~s a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
She learned to wire and ~ the house herself.
VERB: V n
3.
If someone ~s the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
They frequently ~ the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of n
4.
If you say that something ~s new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.
Relations between the two countries have ~ed new depths...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of n