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suspect

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From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”).

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suspect (third-person singular simple present suspects, present participle suspecting, simple past and past participle suspected)

  1. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
    to suspect the presence of disease
  2. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
    to suspect the truth of a story
    • 1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation‎[1]:
      An inhabitant of Gubio, in the duchy of Urbino, in Italy, suspecting the fidelity of his wife, he, in a fit of jealousy, in order to find out whether his suspicion was true, did what the ecclesiastick history informs us Origen did from devotion.
  3. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
    I suspect him of being the thief.
  4. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.

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suspect (plural suspects)

  1. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.

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suspect (comparative more suspect, superlative most suspect)

  1. Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
    • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:
      What I can do or offer is suspect.
    • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎[2], volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, page 64:
      In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
    • 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents‎[3]:
      Facing a backlash over the use of the term “cosmopolitan,” [Josh] Hawley later defended himself against accusations of antisemitism on Twitter as “an ardent advocate of the state of Israel and the Jewish people.” But this conflation of the state of Israel and the Jewish people is the entire point. To today’s far right, Israel is a firm ally against Islam, while “cosmopolitans,” many of whom just happen to be Jewish, are suspect.
    • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
      What appears suspect about the Beeching Report is how quickly it was railroaded through, with the answers manufactured before the questions were asked.
  2. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
    • 2004, Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream, Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005), page 18
      Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.

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From Latin suspectus.

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suspect (feminine suspecte, masculine plural suspects, feminine plural suspectes)

  1. suspicious; suspect

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  • The -ct- becomes audible in the feminine forms (as [kt]). It is one of very few adjectives in which two mute consonants reappear.

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suspect m (plural suspects, feminine suspecte)

  1. a suspect

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Borrowed from French suspect, from Latin suspectus.

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suspect m or n (feminine singular suspectă, masculine plural suspecți, feminine and neuter plural suspecte)

  1. suspicious, doubtful

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Declension of suspect
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite suspect suspectă suspecți suspecte
definite suspectul suspecta suspecții suspectele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite suspect suspecte suspecți suspecte
definite suspectului suspectei suspecților suspectelor

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suspect m (plural suspecți)

  1. suspect

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Declension of suspect
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) suspect suspectul (niște) suspecți suspecții
genitive/dative (unui) suspect suspectului (unor) suspecți suspecților
vocative suspectule suspecților

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