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suspect
[suh-spekt, suhs-pekt, suhs-pekt, suh-spekt]
verb (used with object)
to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.
to suspect a person of murder.
to doubt or mistrust.
I suspect his motives.
to believe to be the case or to be likely or probable; surmise.
I suspect his knowledge did not amount to much.
Synonyms: , ,to have some hint or foreknowledge of.
I think she suspected the surprise.
verb (used without object)
to believe something, especially something evil or wrong, to be the case; have suspicion.
noun
a person who is suspected, especially one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like.
an animal or thing that is suspected to be the cause of something bad: The cause of the disease was not confirmed, but the suspect was an insect.
Investigators focused on faulty wiring as a suspect in the house fire.
The cause of the disease was not confirmed, but the suspect was an insect.
adjective
suspected; open to or under suspicion.
suspect
verb
(tr) to believe guilty of a specified offence without proof
(tr) to think false, questionable, etc
she suspected his sincerity
(tr; may take a clause as object) to surmise to be the case; think probable
to suspect fraud
(intr) to have suspicion
noun
a person who is under suspicion
adjective
causing or open to suspicion
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- suspectible adjective
- nonsuspect noun
- presuspect verb (used with object)
- unsuspecting adjective
- unsuspectingly adverb
- ²õ³Ü²õĖ±č±š³¦³Ł±š°ł noun
- Ė²õ³Ü²õ±č±š³¦³Ł±ō±š²õ²õ adjective
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of suspect1
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of suspect1
Idioms and Phrases
the usual suspects, the people, animals, or things that are commonly associated with a particular activity, situation, etc. (often used facetiously).
We visited a family farm with sheep and bunnies and roosters and goatsāthe usual suspects!
Example Sentences
The suspect, Vance Boelter, is accused of knocking on the doors of the lawmakers in the middle of the night and announcing himself as a police officer to get them to open up, authorities said.
Abortion providers have reported receiving 100 requests for medical records from police officers in relation to suspected abortion offences in the last five years.
Federal prosecutors have leveled six new charges against Vance Boelter, the suspect in the murder of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband.
The government has accepted her call for better data collection on the ethnicity of grooming gang suspects and has promised research into what that tells us about the factors driving exploitation.
The suspect in two politically motivated shootings in Minnesota has been captured and faces multiple charges.
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When To Use
Sus is a shortening of suspicious or suspect. In slang, it has the sense of "questionable" or "shady."
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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