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verb
- 1. have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof: "if you suspect a gas leak, do not turn on an electric light" Similar Opposite
- 2. doubt the genuineness or truth of: "a broker whose honesty he had no reason to suspect" Similar
noun
- 1. a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offence: "the police have arrested a suspect"
adjective
- 1. not to be relied on or trusted; possibly dangerous or false: "a suspect package was found on the platform"
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a person believed to have committed a crime or done something wrong, or something believed to have caused something bad: Police have issued a photograph of the suspect.
verb. sus· pect sə-ˈspekt. suspected; suspecting; suspects. transitive verb. 1. : to imagine (one) to be guilty or culpable on slight evidence or without proof. suspect him of giving false information. 2. : to have doubts of : distrust. suspects her motives. 3.
a person believed to have committed a crime or done something wrong, or something believed to have caused something bad: Police have issued a photograph of the suspect.
1. a. 〈…の 存在 に〉 ( 前もって) 感づく ，〈 …がある ことに 〉 うすうす気づく 《★ 【類語】 ⇒ doubt 》. suspect danger [ a plot] 危険 [ 陰謀 の 恐れ] がある と思う. b. 〔+ (that)〕〈… ということ に〉 うすうす気づく. I suspected that an accident had happened. 何か 事故 でも 起こった のではないか と 感じた. 2. a. 〈 人 に〉 容疑 を かける ，〈 人 を〉 怪しい と思う 《★ しばしば 過去分詞 で 形容詞的 に 用いる; ⇒ suspected 》. Who (m) do you suspect? 君は だれが 怪しい と思う か. b.
suspect とは. suspect の意味・使い方・読み方. 他動. 〔通例証拠. なしに人に〕嫌疑. をかける、罪. があると思う. ・You shouldn't suspect him without full evidence. : 完全. な証拠. もなしに彼を疑. ってはいけない。 〔～を〕疑. わしく思う、〔～を〕本当. ではないと思う、〔～を〕信用. しない. ・I suspect his motives, but I suspect his methods even more. : 彼の意図. は信用. できないが、そのやり口の方がもっと信用. できない。 ～ではないかと疑. う[うすうす感じる]、～だろうと思う.
Suspect definition: to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof. See examples of SUSPECT used in a sentence.
[transitive] suspect something to feel that something is not completely right, legal or honest, without having any proof; to not trust something. I suspected her motives in offering to help. He dealt through a broker whose honesty he had no reason to suspect. Word Origin.
A suspect is a person who is believed to be guilty of a crime. If you leave the scene of a murder with blood on your hands and a weapon in your pocket, you’re likely to become a prime suspect. If others believe you have committed a crime, you are a suspect.
to think that someone may have committed a crime or done something else bad. ～に嫌疑（ 容疑）をかける, ～を疑う. He was suspected of drug dealing. to think that something is probably true. （～ではないかと） 考える, 疑う. They suspected that he was lying. (Translation of suspect from the Cambridge English–Japanese Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
If you suspect that something dishonest or unpleasant has been done, you believe that it has probably been done. If you suspect someone of doing an action of this kind, you believe that they probably did it.
