SUSPECT


Meaning of SUSPECT in English

adj suspected; distrusted.

2. suspect ·adj suspicious; inspiring distrust.

3. suspect ·adj suspicion.

4. suspect ·vt to look up to; to respect.

5. suspect ·vi to imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

6. suspect ·vt to imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.

7. suspect ·adj one who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion;

— formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.

8. suspect ·vt to hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.

9. suspect ·vt to imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise;

— commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.

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