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suspect
UK /səˈspɛkt/ US /səˈspɛkt/
verb 5adj 2noun 1
Definitions
verb
1
To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
to suspect the presence of disease
From her hand I could suspect no ill.
2
To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
to suspect the truth of a story
An inhabitant of Gubio, in the duchy of Urbino, in Italy, suspecting the fidelity of his wife, he, in a fit of jealousy, in order to find out whether his suspicion was true, did what the ecclesiastick history informs us Origen did from devotion.
3
To believe (someone) to be guilty.
I suspect him of being the thief.
4
To have suspicion.
5
To look up to; to respect.
noun
1
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch Round up the usual suspects.
adj
1
Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
What I can do or offer is suspect.
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
2
Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.
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