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/səspˈɛkt/ /sˈəspˌɛkt/ Listen

verb

Suspect v. t. (past & past part. suspected; pres. part. suspecting)

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. "Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more." "From her hand I could suspect no ill."

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

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

To look up to; to respect. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To mistrust; distrust; surmise; doubt.

Suspect v. i. To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious. "If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me."

noun

Suspect n.

Suspicion. (Obs.) "So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed."

One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.

adjective

Suspect adj.

Suspicious; inspiring distrust. (Obs.) "Suspect (was) his face, suspect his word also."

Suspected; distrusted. (Obs.) "What I can do or offer is suspect."

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"Suspect" Quotes from Famous Books

... would suspect it to be an active geyser. But in 1871, a column of water entirely filling the crater shot from it, which by actual measurement was found to be two hundred and ...

— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes

... he belongs to tied me up!" complained the boy. "I'm going to get even on this geek! We can walk right down on him at any time now. He'll never suspect that we're pirates." ...

— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson

... nodded. "You have forgotten your names—ah! Yours," he pointed to me, "was Ainslee, and it still is. And you are Monsieur Foulet. But Brice—" he paused. My heart hung in my breast, suspended there with terror. What was the matter with Brice? What did Fraser suspect—or know? He turned to the doctor. "You will give Inspector Brice another injection," he said. "The Inspector has a strong mind, and a clever one. A normal injection ...

— The Floating Island of Madness • Jason Kirby

... may be thus translated: "Peter de Baldwyn holds in Combes, in the county of Surrey, by the service to go a wool gathering for our Lady the Queen among the White Thorns, and if he refuses to gather it he shall pay into the Treasury of our Lord the King xxs. per annum." I should almost suspect a false reading, as the editor is inclined to do, but that many other services, equally curious and improbable, ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... and Tom Wealdon would probably be one of the first men whom he would see. He must 'hang out the signal' in 'Galignani.' Lake could never suspect its meaning, even were he to see it. There was but one risk in it, which was in the coarse perfidy of Mark Welder himself, who would desire no better fun, in some of his moods, than boasting to Lake of the whole arrangement in Jos. ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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