(~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