sleuth
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Is sleuth a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of sleuth?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.archaic
2. (obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, transitive) To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.Examples: "We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!"Synonyms: shadowintransitivetransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.Synonyms: idleness, inertia, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothfulnessobsoleteuncountable
2. (rare, collective) A group of bears.Examples: "As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…"; "If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves."; "From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk."Synonyms: slothcollectiverare
Definition source: Wiktionary