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- DictionarySus·pect
verb
- 1. have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof: "if you suspect a gas leak, do not turn on an electric light"
- 2. doubt the genuineness or truth of: "a broker whose honesty he had no reason to suspect"
noun
- 1. a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offense: "the police have arrested a suspect"
adjective
- 1. not to be relied on or trusted; possibly dangerous or false: "a suspect package was found on the platform"
1. : to imagine (one) to be guilty or culpable on slight evidence or without proof. suspect him of giving false information. 2. : to have doubts of : distrust. suspects her motives. 3.
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.
a person believed to have committed a crime or done something wrong, or something believed to have caused something bad: Police have issued a photograph of the suspect.
a person believed to have committed a crime or done something wrong, or something believed to have caused something bad: Police have issued a photograph of the suspect.
A suspect is a person who is believed to be guilty of a crime. If you leave the scene of a murder with blood on your hands and a weapon in your pocket, you’re likely to become a prime suspect. If others believe you have committed a crime, you are a suspect.
1. to believe to be guilty, 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. v.i. 4. to believe something, esp. something evil or wrong, to be the case; have suspicion. n.
suspect. [transitive, intransitive] to have an idea that something is probably true or likely to happen, especially something bad, but without having definite proof.
