Word
Suspect
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
sus-pect
Definition
- a. - Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
- a. - Suspected; distrusted.
- a. - Suspicion.
- a. - One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of
suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to
persons suspected of crime.
- v. t. - To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion
of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no
evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something
unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
- v. t. - To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or
without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
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