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sus⋅pect

  [v. suh-spekt; n. suhs-pekt; adj. suhs-pekt, suh-spekt]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
2. to doubt or mistrust: I suspect his motives.
3. to believe to be the case or to be likely or probable; surmise: I suspect his knowledge did not amount to much.
4. to have some hint or foreknowledge of: I think she suspected the surprise.
–verb (used without object)
5. to believe something, esp. something evil or wrong, to be the case; have suspicion.
–noun
6. a person who is suspected, esp. one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like.
–adjective
7. suspected; open to or under suspicion.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME (adj.) < L suspectāre, equiv. to su- su- + spectāre, freq. of specere to look at

Related forms:
sus⋅pect⋅i⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
3. guess, conjecture, suppose.
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sus·pect   (sə-spěkt')   
v.   sus·pect·ed, sus·pect·ing, sus·pects

v.   tr.
  1. To surmise to be true or probable; imagine: I suspect they are very disappointed.
  2. To have doubts about; distrust: I suspect his motives.
  3. To think (a person) guilty without proof: The police suspect her of murder.
v.   intr.
To have suspicion.
n.   (sŭs'pěkt')
One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime.
adj.   (sŭs'pěkt', sə-spěkt')
Open to or viewed with suspicion: a suspect policy; suspect motives.

[Middle English suspecten, from Old French suspecter, from Latin suspectāre, frequentative of suspicere, to look up at, suspect : su-, sub-, from below; see sub- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]
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Suspected

Sus*pect"ed\, a. Distrusted; doubted. -- Sus*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Sus*pect"ed*ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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