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Sleuth Common

Sleuth has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

a detective who follows a trail

2

A detective.

3

Slowness; laziness, sloth.

Verb
1

watch, observe, or inquire secretly

2

To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.

See Also
sleuths discover sleuthlike crime bloodhound sloth detective sleuthhound
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
detective monitor
Rhyming Words
euth auth guth luth ruth youth truth couth south douth fouth bluth louth mouth routh caruth drouth struth uncuth duluth
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