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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.
Jul 6, 2012 · verb. sus· pect sə-ˈspekt. suspected; suspecting; suspects. 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.
A suspect is a person who is believed to be guilty of a crime. If you leave the scene of a murder with blood on your hands and a weapon in your pocket, you’re likely to become a prime suspect. If others believe you have committed a crime, you are a suspect.
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 definition: to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof. See examples of SUSPECT used in a sentence.
[transitive] to have an idea that somebody is guilty of something, without having definite proof. suspect somebody/something of something He resigned after being suspected of theft. He is not suspected of any involvement in the recent attacks. He was wrongly suspected of the crime. They arrested four men suspected of links to an extremist group.
1. To consider (something) to be true or probable on little or no evidence: I suspect they are very disappointed. 2. To have doubts about (something); distrust: I suspect his motives. 3. To consider (a person) guilty without proof: The police suspect her of murder. v.intr. To have suspicion. n. (sŭs′pĕkt′)
A suspect is a person who the police or authorities think may be guilty of a crime. Police have arrested a suspect in a series of killings and sexual assaults in the city. Synonyms: accused, defendant, suspected person More Synonyms of suspect. 4. adjective.
a person who is suspected of a crime or of having done something wrong. a murder suspect. He is the prime suspect in the case. Five suspects have been detained for questioning. Do you have a list of likely suspects? Extra Examples. Topics Crime and punishment b2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin. Definitions on the go.
to think that something is probably true, or is likely to happen: [ + (that) ] They suspected that he was lying. suspect verb [T] (NOT TRUST) to not trust someone or something: She suspected his motives for offering to help. (Definition of suspect from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of suspect.
