Sleuth
WordNet

noun


(1)   A detective who follows a trail

verb


(2)   Watch, observe, or inquire secretly
WiktionaryText

Noun



  1. An animal's trail or track.
  2. A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.
  3. 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?

Verb



  1. To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.
    • 1922, Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary
      We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!

Noun



  1. Slowness; laziness, sloth.
  2. A collective term for a group of bears.
    • 1961, Noel Perrin, A Passport Secretly Green - Page 89
      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...
    • 1995, Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth - Page 13
      If these dainty adventurers weren't being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.
    • 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses - Page 200
      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
: idleness, inertia, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothfulness: sloth
 
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