clue
/kluː/ verb C2- To provide with a clue. · The crossword compiler wasn't sure how to clue the word "should".
- To provide someone with information which they lack (often used with "in" or "up"). · Smith, clue Jones in on what's been happening.
He/she/it clues · Past clued · Past participle clued · -ing form cluing
Verb forms
- Base form
- clue
- He/she/it
- clues
- Past
- clued
- Past participle
- clued
- -ing form
- cluing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Instead of that, he had intended, before his plans were nipped, to send me the clue in this envelope.
There was a saddlebag with spanner and oilcan, but no clue as to the owner.
When on the top of this I am able to show that the blood mark on the windowsill was deliberately placed there by Barker, in order to give a false clue to the police, you will admit that the case grows dark against him.
He was aware that the bicycle would be described by the hotel people and be a clue against him; so he left it there and made his way by some other means to London or to some safe hiding place which he had already arranged.
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