| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sus·pect |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -sp kt |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: sus·pect·ed, sus·pect·ing, sus·pects
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 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. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To have suspicion. | | NOUN: | (s spkt ) One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime. | | ADJECTIVE: | (sspkt, s-spkt) Open to or viewed with suspicion: a suspect policy; suspect motives. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English suspecten, from Old French suspecter, from Latin suspect re, frequentative of suspicere, to look up at, suspect : su-, sub-, from below; see sub– + specere, to look at; see spek- in Appendix I.
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