<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.</li><li>to doubt or mistrust: I suspect his motives.</li><li>to believe to be the case or to be likely or probable; surmise: I suspect his knowledge did not amount to much.</li><li>Synonyms: suppose, conjecture, guess.</li><li>to have some hint or foreknowledge of: I think she suspected the surprise.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a person who is suspected, especially one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like.</li><li>an animal or thing that is suspected to be the cause of something bad: The cause of the disease was not confirmed, but the suspect was an insect.</li><li>Investigators focused on faulty wiring as a suspect in the house fire.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>suspected; open to or under suspicion.</li></ul>