suspect
IPA: sʌspˈɛkt
noun
- A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
verb
- (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
- (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
- (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
- (intransitive) To have suspicion.
- (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
adjective
- Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
- (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
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Examples of "suspect" in Sentences
- He espoused the suspect.
- He is suspected of peculation.
- I suspect that they bilked me.
- The people suspected the connivance.
- The substance is a suspected carcinogen.
- Butler found the suspect in the kitchen.
- I suspect that it's the laudatory vocabulary.
- It was suspected to misappropriate the donation.
- I suspect it is not therefore an unshared IP in the strict sense.
- I just approved that operational plan, a pure intelligence project that seeks to incarcerate a group of suspected criminals.