sleuth
/sluːθ/ verb C2- To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
He/she/it sleuths · Past sleuthed · Past participle sleuthed · -ing form sleuthing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sleuth
- He/she/it
- sleuths
- Past
- sleuthed
- Past participle
- sleuthed
- -ing form
- sleuthing
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All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.
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