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  2. SUSPECT definition: 1. to think or believe something to be true or probable: 2. to think that someone has committed a…. Learn more.

  3. suspect. [transitive, intransitive] to have an idea that something is probably true or likely to happen, especially something bad, but without having definite proof.

  4. transitive verb. 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 imagine to exist or be true, likely, or probable.

  5. 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. The prime suspect in the case committed suicide.

  6. Suspect things or people are ones that you think may be dangerous or may be less good or genuine than they appear. Delegates evacuated the building when a suspect package was found. The firm has taken out adverts urging customers to return suspect products.

  7. 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.

  8. Definitions of 'suspect'. 1. You use suspect when you are stating something that you believe is probably true, in order to make it sound less strong or direct. [vagueness] [...] 2. If you suspect that something dishonest or unpleasant has been done, you believe that it has probably been done.

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