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The meaning of SUSPECT is regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion : suspected. How to use suspect in a sentence.
Suspect: With Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Miller, James Nesbitt, Sacha Dhawan. Veteran detective Danny Frater is called to a hospital mortuary to identify a corpse only to find it is his estranged daughter.
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.
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.
suspect. [transitive, intransitive] to have an idea that something is probably true or likely to happen, especially something bad, but without having definite proof.
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.
