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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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
1. ( tr) to believe guilty of a specified offence without proof. 2. ( tr) to think false, questionable, etc: she suspected his sincerity. 3. ( tr; may take a clause as object) to surmise to be the case; think probable: to suspect fraud. 4. ( intr) to have suspicion. n. a person who is under suspicion. adj. causing or open to suspicion.
to think that someone may have committed a crime or done something bad: He was suspected of drug dealing. suspected terrorists. suspect verb [T] (THINK LIKELY) B2. to think that something is probably true, or is likely to happen: [ + (that) ] They suspected that he was lying. suspect verb [T] (NOT TRUST) to not trust someone or something:
suspect. [transitive, intransitive] to have an idea that something is probably true or likely to happen, especially something bad, but without having definite proof suspect (something) If you suspect a gas leak, do not strike a match or even turn on an electric light.
1. You use suspect when you are stating something that you believe is probably true, in order to make it sound less strong or direct. [vagueness] [...] 2. If you suspect that something dishonest or unpleasant has been done, you believe that it has probably been done.
