SUSPECT


Meaning of SUSPECT in English

(~ed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

You use ~ when you are stating something that you believe is probably true, in order to make it sound less strong or direct.

I ~ they were right...

The above complaints are, I ~, just the tip of the iceberg...

Do women really share such stupid jokes? We ~ not.

VERB: V that, V that, V not/so vagueness

2.

If you ~ that something dishonest or unpleasant has been done, you believe that it has probably been done. If you ~ someone of doing an action of this kind, you believe that they probably did it.

He ~ed that the woman staying in the flat above was using heroin...

It was perfectly all right, he said, because the police had not ~ed him of anything...

You don’t really think Webb ~s you?...

Frears was rushed to hospital with a ~ed heart attack.

VERB: V that, V n of n, V n, V-ed

3.

A ~ is a person who the police or authorities think may be guilty of a crime.

Police have arrested a ~ in a series of killings and sexual assaults in the city.

N-COUNT

4.

Suspect things or people are ones that you think may be dangerous or may be less good or genuine than they appear.

Delegates evacuated the building when a ~ package was found...

ADJ

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