sus|pect

sus|pect
sus|pect «verb. suh SPEHKT; noun. SUHS pehkt; adjective. SUHS pehkt, suh SPEHKT» verb, noun, adjective.
–v.t.
1. to think (something) likely; imagine to be so; surmise: »

The old fox suspected danger and did not touch the trap. I suspect that some accident has delayed him. I suspect his knowledge did not amount to much (Charles Lamb).

 SYNONYM(S): conjecture.
2. to believe (a person or thing) guilty, false, or bad without enough proof or knowledge: »

The policeman suspected the thief of lying.

3. to feel no confidence in; be very skeptical of; doubt: »

The judge suspected the truth of the defendant's alibi.

–v.i.
to imagine something, especially some evil, to be possible or likely; be suspicious.
╂[< adjective, and < French suspecter suspect, ultimately < Latin suspectus; see the adjective]
–n.
a person suspected of some offense, evil intention, or the like: »

The police have arrested two suspects in connection with the bank robbery.

╂[< adjective]
–adj.
open to or viewed with suspicion; suspected: »

As for the aims and ideals of Marxism, there is one feature of them that is now rightly suspect (Edmund Wilson).

╂[< Latin suspectus, past participle of suspicere esteem, look up to < sub- under + specere to look]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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