sleuth
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A detective.
1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
Đồng nghĩa: detective, gumshoe, investigator, dick, private eye
- 2.
(archaic)A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
- 3.
(obsolete)An animal’s trail or track.
- 4.
(obsolete, uncountable)Slowness; laziness, sloth.
Đồng nghĩa: idleness, inertia, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothfulness
- 5.
(collective, rare)A group of bears.
Đồng nghĩa: sloth
Động từ
verb- 1.
(ambitransitive)To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
Đồng nghĩa: gumshoe, shadow, get to the bottom of, solve, work out, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, iron out, meliorate, puzzle out, ravel, reason out, resolve, riddle, sleuth, solve, tease out, think out, unpuzzle, unravel, unriddle, unsolve, upsolve, work out, Any from Thesaurus:untangle
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sleuthhound.