- (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
- (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 hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
- (v.t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
- (a.) Suspected; distrusted.
- (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 look up to; to respect.
- (a.) Suspicion.
- (v.i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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