suspect: Meaning and Definition of

sus•pect

1. to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., 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: I suspect his knowledge did not amount to much.
4. to have some hint or foreknowledge of: I think she suspected the surprise.

1. to believe something, esp. something evil or wrong, to be the case; have suspicion.

1. a person who is suspected, esp. one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like.

1. suspected; open to or under suspicion.