Crossword-Solution: DETECT 6 letters, 112 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Detect a. Detected.
Detect v. t. To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light;
as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.
Detect v. t. To inform against; to accuse.

We have 112 clues for the answer “DETECT”

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Act like Holmes 1 answer
Catch a hint of 1 answer
Catch a scent of 1 answer
Catch the scent of 1 answer
Catch with the nose, say 1 answer
DISCOVER presence, existence or fact of 1 answer
Discover the presence of 1 answer
Discover, a la Sam Spade 1 answer
Discover, identify 1 answer
Do a gumshoe's work 1 answer
Do a private eye's job 1 answer
Do a sleuth's job 1 answer
Do gumshoe's work 1 answer
Do some sleuthing 1 answer
Emulate Ellery 1 answer
Emulate Magnum 1 answer
Emulate a sleuth 1 answer
Imitate Ellery Queen 1 answer
Nero Wolf and Perry Mason do. 1 answer
Pick up, so to speak 1 answer
Sense with your senses 1 answer
Smell out 1 answer
Sniff out, perhaps 1 answer
Spot: Colloq. 1 answer
To discern something hidden 1 answer
We found traces of lead in the paint 1 answer
What Lupin and Dupin do. 1 answer
What private eyes do. 1 answer
Emulate Holmes 2 answers
Get a hint of 2 answers
What gumshoes do 2 answers
Emulate Columbo 3 answers
Catch a whiff of 3 answers
Hit upon. 4 answers
Hit on 6 answers
Learn about 6 answers
Sniff out 6 answers
Pick up on 7 answers
smell a rat 7 answers
Find out (about) 9 answers
CATCH the eye 10 answers
ABOUT TO NOTICE, FOR EXAMPLE, RETURNING BIRDS 10 answers
BY CHANCE DISCOVER 10 answers
AS AN IDEA DISCOVER 10 answers
BE A PRIVATE EYE 10 answers
DISCOVER THE LOCATION OF 10 answers
DISCOVER OR DETERMINE THE EXISTENCE, PRESENCE, OR FACT OF 11 answers
Discover by chance 13 answers
Ferret out 14 answers
descry 15 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETECT (5)

The other was a most artful deceiver, and could be understood only by such as were skilful enough to detect his cunningly-devised frauds.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Sirrah, what mak’st thou here? Dost thou presume To approach my doors, thou brazen-faced rogue, My murderer and the filcher of my crown? Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me Some touch of cowardice or witlessness, That made thee undertake this enterprise? I seemed forsooth too simple to perceive The serpent stealing on me in the dark, Or else too weak to scotch it when I saw.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
That unsunned snow in the matron’s bosom, and the burning shame on Hester Prynne’s—what had the two in common? Or, once more, the electric thrill would give her warning—“Behold Hester, here is a companion!” and, looking up, she would detect the eyes of a young maiden glancing at the scarlet letter, shyly and aside, and quickly averted, with a faint, chill crimson in her cheeks as if her purity were somewhat sullied by that momentary glance.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
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The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Certainly at the moment he seemed to take it very quietly; hardly, in fact, did he appear to understand the meaning of all she said; but what was more certain still, was that never after that could she detect the slightest sign of that love, which she once believed had been wholly hers.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with DETECT (3)

Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances? Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen: Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages, we have worn masks of fruit and flowers in order to conceal from ourselves the meaty essence of our humanity. We appreciate the sexual attractant of the rose, the ripeness of the orange, more than we honor our own ripe carnality. Now today we want to perfume our cities, as well; to replace their stinging fumes of disturbed fossils' sleep with the scent of…
Tom Robbins Wild Ducks Flying Backward
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.
Ilona Andrews Magic Bites
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
Alvin Plantinga Warranted Christian Belief
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 87 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).