·adj Suspected; distrusted.
II. Suspect ·adj Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
III. Suspect ·adj Suspicion.
IV. Suspect ·vt To look up to; to Respect.
V. Suspect ·vi To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
VI. Suspect ·vt To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
VII. Suspect ·adj One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion;
— formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
VIII. Suspect ·vt To hold to be uncertain; to Doubt; to Mistrust; to Distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
IX. Suspect ·vt 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.