suspectverb/səˈspɛkt/

• 1

  To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

  • to suspect the presence of disease
  • From her hand I could suspect no ill.
• 2

  To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

  • to suspect the truth of a story
  • 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

  To believe (someone) to be guilty.

  • I suspect him of being the thief.
• 4

  To have suspicion.

• 5

  obsoleteTo look up to; to respect.

suspectnoun/ˈsʌspɛkt/

• 1

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

  • 1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch Round up the usual suspects.

suspectadj/ˈsʌspɛkt/

• 1

  Viewed with suspicion; suspected.

  • What I can do or offer is suspect.
  • 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.
• 2

  Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.

  • Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.